Implemented a snapshot exclude list.

[live-boot-grml.git] / bin / live-snapshot

diff --git a/bin/live-snapshot b/bin/live-snapshot
index 5606436..5a7b979 100755 (executable)
--- a/bin/live-snapshot
+++ b/bin/live-snapshot
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ SNAP_OUTPUT=""
 SNAP_RESYNC_STRING=""
 SNAP_TYPE="cpio"
 SNAP_LIST="/etc/live-snapshot.list"
+EXCLUDE_LIST="/etc/live-snapshot.exclude_list"
 
 Error ()
 {
@@ -392,6 +393,13 @@ Do_snapshot ()
                        # Removing whiteheads of unionfs
                        cd "${SNAP_COW}"
                        find . -name '*.wh.*' >> "${TMP_FILELIST}"
+
+                       if [ -e "${EXCLUDE_LIST}" ]
+                       then
+                               # Add explicitly excluded files
+                               cat "${EXCLUDE_LIST}" | grep -v '^#.*$' | grep -v '^ *$' >> "${TMP_FILELIST}"
+                       fi
+
                        cd "${OLDPWD}"
                        mksquashfs "${SNAP_COW}" "${DEST}" -ef "${TMP_FILELIST}"
                        ;;
@@ -399,10 +407,18 @@ Do_snapshot ()
                cpio)
                        WORKING_DIR=$(Do_filelist "${TMP_FILELIST}")
                        cd "${WORKING_DIR}"
-                       cat "${TMP_FILELIST}" | cpio --quiet -o0 -H newc | gzip -9c > "${DEST}" || exit 1
+                       if [ -e "${EXCLUDE_LIST}" ]
+                       then
+                               # Convert \0 to \n and tag existing (rare but possible) \n in filenames,
+                               # this to let grep -F -v do a proper work in filtering out
+                               cat "${TMP_FILELIST}" | tr '\n' '\1' | tr '\0' '\n' | grep -F -v -f "${EXCLUDE_LIST}" | tr '\n' '\0' | tr '\1' '\n' | cpio --quiet -o0 -H newc | gzip -9c > "${DEST}" || exit 1
+                       else
+                               cat "${TMP_FILELIST}" | cpio --quiet -o0 -H newc | gzip -9c > "${DEST}" || exit 1
+                       fi
                        cd "${OLDPWD}"
                        ;;
 
+               # ext2|ext3 and jffs2 does not support easely an exclude list, files should be copied in another directory in order to filter content
                ext2|ext3)
                        DU_DIM="$(du -ks ${SNAP_COW} | cut -f1)"
                        REAL_DIM="$(expr ${DU_DIM} + ${DU_DIM} / 20)" # Just 5% more to be sure, need something more sophistcated here...