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With sub-$100 half-terabyte hard disks but without inexpensive backup media and drives, it is often necessary to mark parts of a filesystem 'nodump' to get useful backups on a reasonable number of pieces of media.

turd is a program I cooked up to help with this: it is like the standard du utility, except that it consults the filesystem nodump flag. This means the output of turd approximates the amount of tape space required to dump the named directory. Like du -x, turd never recurses into a different filesystem.

turd is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

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Entry first conceived on 24 March 2008, 23:40 UTC, last modified on 25 March 2008, 0:08 UTC



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