Just wanted to comment on the man page for xfsdump. We recently needed
to exclude some files from out nightly backups, so rather than specifiy
which dirs to backup/exclude, I tried to use the SKIP_FILE attribute.
After setting the attr, the backup proceeded as normal and included the
supposedly excluded files. The problem I had, was that under the -e
section of the man page, the attr is specified as
"SGI_XFS-DUMP_SKIP_FILE" when it really should be
"SGI_XFSDUMP_SKIP_FILE". Looks like due to its placement it got
hyphenated. Unfortunately, it's in double quotes and I read it is a
literal. After correcting this, it works as expected. I did notice that
if I had read the entire man page, there are examples of how to set this
attr later on. The examples do use the correct attr, just not the
section on -e.
-Walt
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