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Revision as of 15:16, 22 January 2020

There are times when you might be storing a large static' dataset in your home directory, but you do not need that data backed up to our nightly tape/disk-based backup system. If this is the case, you may configure your data not to be backed up by that system.

To exclude your data from our backups:

  • Move your static data (including its subfolders) into a separate folder in your home directory.
  • cd to your new data folder.
  • In your new data folder, create a file named .nsr edit it to include the following:

skip: .

NOTE: An easy way to create the file without editing it by hand is with the command:

echo 'skip: .' >.nsr