Re: Preventing backup of large "read-only" databases

[Brian Lalor <blalor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, David Weatherford wrote:

> 
> I keep several large Doc files on my Pilot.  This causes a
> Backup to take several minutes.  Is there a way to make
> Backup skip certain DBs?
pilot-xfer has a -x option (I believe) that allows you to ignore certain
files.  P'haps you can hack something in that way...

B
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