Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:24:45 +0200 From: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar a complete drive excluding one directory Message-ID: <20041017132420.GA1896@oliverfuchs.ath.cx>
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Hi, I want in FreeBSD RELEASE 5.2.1 tar a complete / system except one directory e.g. /mnt where I want to store the tar archive. In linux I do: cd / tar cvzf /mnt/root.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz . --exclude=proc --exclude=mnt Trying this in FreeBSD is not accepted because tar is still trying to tar the /mnt directory and the to be made archive. What I am doing wrong? Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit
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