On a new machine, there's nothing to remove and so rm will return
an error. I'd like our prepare scripts not to return errors
unnecessarily!

Ignore /usr/share/doc, /usr/share/texlive - takes a long time to enumerate contents which we then exclude anyway due to being deb-provided

Tidy global_ignore - remove some long-since unneeded lines that should have been host-specific in the first place

e.g. /DATA for apps, /home/web for atm webserver. Also /run was in twice...

Our backup logs are generally full of

+ ssh -p 22 -o ConnectTimeout=10 root@openvpn2020.ch.cam.ac.uk '
  umask 077
  FILELIST=`tempfile`
  CONFLIST=`tempfile`
  mkdir -p /var/adm/backup
  # Make logrotate use datestamps
  if ! grep -q dateext /etc/logrotate.conf ; then sed  -i '\''s/^include/dateext\ninclude/'\'' /etc/logrotate.conf ; fi
  # Which packages are installed?
  dpkg --get-selections | awk '\'' { print $1 ; } '\'' >/var/adm/backup/packages
  cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | while read F ; do [ -f "$F" ] && echo "$F" ; done | sort > $FILELIST
  awk '\''/Description:/ { flag = 0 } ; flag == 1 { print $1 ; }  ; /Conffiles:/ { flag = 1  } ; '\'' </var/lib/dpkg/status |  sort >$CONFLIST
  diff -u $FILELIST $CONFLIST | grep ^-/ | sed s/^-// >/var/adm/backup/package-files
  rm
 '
rm: missing operand

because we're not escaping the args to that final rm command! This means we gradually fill
up /tmp, especially on machines that are infrequently rebooted (e.g. calculon)

prepare-olddebian : does not do package file excludes
prepare-database: does not do package file excludes or dump databases

These are for use on machines where we can no longer reinstate them by
quickly and easily installing a new VM from the network and then
layering the backup on top, usually because the OS is obsolete.

This seems to be used for machines with postgres. It was also updated
to put exclude and log files in the new locations.

Split logs for tasks with same target machine but different target filesystems into
different logfiles for easier debugging.

prepare-nondebian script creates a fake excludes file for the machine now if
one doesn't exist, because I keep forgetting to do it myself for Redhat
machines and then the zfs-rsync script fails.