On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 10:48:29AM +0100, Michael wrote
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> IKR, it's as if the usage of this mechanism is meant to remain secret
> and a test of the patience and detective skills of the user.
I've filed a documentation bug with bug-...@gnu.org We'll see what
happens.
--
I've seen things, yo
On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:10:14 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> I'll gladly take any of them. One more thing; in this mode, you
> *MUST* use a leading minus for "-cvzf". The lazy "cvzf" will *NOT*
> work, and throws a misleading error message. See also my post to
> Michael about the contents
On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:32:04 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Michael wrote
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> > Have a look at this page which explains what you need to do:
> >
> > https://bford.info/cachedir/
>
> Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That page explains that any rando
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:36:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
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> Try it and see. My concern is that the man page implies that with
> --exclude-caches-under the subdirectories are excluded recursively,
> but the directory with the file called CACHEDIR.TAG is not. I'm sure
> that's wrong but the m
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Michael wrote
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> Have a look at this page which explains what you need to do:
>
> https://bford.info/cachedir/
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That page explains that any random
CACHEDIR.TAG file won't suffice, and why my attempts were all failing.
Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:28:31 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
>> Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push
>> it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the
>> .ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I
>>
On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:28:31 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push
> it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the
> .ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I
> understand the man p
On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 5:28 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
> Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push
> it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the
> .ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I
> understand the man page corre
Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push
it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the
.ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I
understand the man page correctly about the CACHEDIR.TAG "magic file"?
Assume I have a .c
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