Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:46:02 -0700 From: Sean Knox <Sknox@CQOS.COM> To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Excluding directories/files with GNU tar. Message-ID: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C6086B4@CQOS1>
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Many thanks to Mario Doria, who suggested the following: "try inverting the order from: tar -cvvf var.tar /var -X /home/sean/nobackup to tar -cvvf var.tar -X /home/sean/nobackup /var" In the /home/sean/nobackup file, i had entries such as: /var/db /var/qmail Worked great. Thanks again Mario! - Sean -----Original Message----- From: Sean Knox [mailto:Sknox@CQOS.COM] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:54 PM To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) Subject: Excluding directories/files with GNU tar. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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