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labeas:
NonVerbatum/fromMemory items are indicated <thus>.
TC writers need to distingiush between files & directories.
In trying to clean-up my bakup/restore data, I noticed in the GUI:
a list of files in </home/tc> which I don't want to be backedUp.
The files were listed in the GUI & existed in </home/tc>.

Apparently individual <path/fileID> can be added via the GUI for backingUP?
But can they be <subtracted>? And where is the files which list these
individual FilesToBeBackedUp?
!!!! Now I can't get the GUI to show that <list of files in /home/tc> ?
   Please advise.

andyj:
There's a GUI for these? Who knew?  :o  The file / directory list to save is in /opt/.filetool.lst. The file /directory list to exclude is in /opt/.xfiletool.lst.

Be sure that you have permissions on the files in both lists. Thanks to a bug in busybox tar the backup will fail if root does not have read rights in a file in the exclude list. I filed a bug on it a year and a half ago and it is still unassigned so don't expect it to be fixed any time soon. And yes it's possible to have directories root can't read like shared folders in VMware.

coreplayer2:
There's so many methods to add or remove files and directories and their contents to and from the backup.

The GUI makes it so easy..


@labeas  I'm not sure I understand the question, but there are two files which control files to or not too backup
filetool.lst  too backup, and
xfiletool.lst  Xclude from backup

just experiment with these two files and you'll figure it out easy enough

labeas:
> just experiment with these two files and you'll figure it out easy enough
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No! a baby and your dog "figures it out by experimenting".
This is computer SCIENCE. We should strive to have <exact syntax>.
And "many ways of doing it" is bad: like GoTos / spagetti-code.
Also each test for Backup/Restore needs a reboot.

gerald_clark:
No, it does not.
You can do a backup, and examine the backup file with mc.

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