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Re:Restic – Backups Done Right by mike-cardwell on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:55PM (#21413016)
CACHEDIR.TAG seems to be based on a spec that multiple pieces of software are starting to use. Give it a quick google.

I can't think of any reason why you would need to customise the name of the file, but I'm sure there are use cases out there.

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Re:Restic – Backups Done Right by nine_k on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:34PM (#21413443)
This is also a problem.

I might like to mark certain things as not backed up because they contain sensitive or otherwise unrelated information. But I might not want other tools treat them as cache data, that is, transient and safe to delete.

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Re:Restic – Backups Done Right by mike-cardwell on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:49AM (#21439912)
Then you can just add `--exclude filename` to your backup job.
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