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From: Sean Knox <Sknox@CQOS.COM>
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Subject: Excluding directories/files with GNU tar.
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:54:13 -0700
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I have searched for quite awhile in my attempts to exclude certain
directories when creating a tar.

to tar the entire /var directory, minus the entire /var/db directory (and
any subdirectories) as well as /var/tmp, I have tried the following:

---> tar cvf var.tar /var --exclude db --exclude tmp

and I also tried:

----> tar -cvvf var.tar /var -X /home/sean/nobackup
	
and created a file named "nobackup" beforehand that contains the files
and/or
directories to be excluded:

/var/db/*
/var/tmp/*


Neither of these solutions worked. What am I doing wrong?

- Sean

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