Support for CACHEDIR.TAG excludes?

[Francis.Montagnac at inria.fr]

Hi.

On Thu, 30 May 2013 22:17:24 +0200 Christoph Biedl wrote:
> there's an old proposal to exclude a directory and its subdirectories
> from being backed up and the like, ...

You can achieve that already with the -F option of rsync. Create a
.rsync-filter file in the directories you want with the following
content:

+ .rsync-filter
- *

The first rule is useful in case of a full restore from the backup
to keep track of the directories you want to exclude.

    Francis