NAME
faubackup - Backup System using a Filesystem for Storage
SYNOPSIS
faubackup-find [--noregexp] [regexp]...
DESCRIPTION
faubackup-find searches for files in the current directory, and prints
their name to standard-output. That output is intended to be piped
through faubackup-gather, in order to build a backup.
faubackup-find is a lot like ’find . -depth -print0’, with one
additional feature: you can specify a filter list of files to ignore.
When a directory matches one of these filters, the whole directory gets
ignored (like in find without -depth).
As the output is relative to the current directory, so are the filters.
You can’t use absolute paths here.
You can specify these filters using one of these two formats:
shell-like and perl-regexp. Shell-like filters have ’*’ and ’?’
Wildcards. In addition to most shells, faubackup-find filters
understand a special ’**’ Wildcard, matching everything, even
subdirectories. For example, ’**/,*’ matches all files beginning with a
comma, in all subdirectories, while ’*~’ only matches files in the
current directory that end with a tilde. The second form, Perl regexps
can be used by prepending them with ’REGEXP:’. As Perl regular
expressions may be used for malicous things, it is possible to disable
all Perl regexps via the command line option --noregexp.
Both types of filters are matched against the relative path of files
(with an implicit ^ at the beginning and $ at the end). A filter that
begins with ’**/’ is handled specially and also matches files in the
current directory, although these files don’t have a / in their path.
Filter expressions are read from the command line and from .faubackuprc
files in each subdirectory. Those specified at the command line are
matched against every file, while those read from a directory only
affect that directory (and subdirectories eventually).
OPTIONS
--noregexp
Disable perl regular expressions in ignore lists.
--one-file-system, -L
Don’t traverse into other file systems.
FILES
.faubackuprc
Configuration for faubackup-find. Lines beginning with # are
comments. faubackup-find recognizes lines that start with
’Ignore’, specifying a filter for that directory. All files
matching that filter will be ignored. Example: ’Ignore **.o’
ignores all object files in all subdirectories.
BUGS
Please report all bugs to faubackup-user@lists.sourceforge.net.
Man-pages may be confusing ;-). Please send your ideas/comments to
help improve faubackup.
SEE ALSO
faubackup(8), find(1),
COPYRIGHT
FauBackup is Copyright (c) 2000-01 Dr. Volkmar Sieh, (c) 2000-06 Martin
Waitz. Developed at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
FauBackup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Look at
COPYING for details.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>.
CONTACT
mailto:faubackup-user@lists.sourceforge.net
March 10, 2003 FAUBACKUP(8)