Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:59:40 +0200 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: jks@clickcom.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with the Exclude option of tar Message-ID: <20010906155940.A2995@goku.kasby> In-Reply-To: <PHEMIEFOLOKALAMFPIPCAEELCBAA.jsmailing@clickcom.com>; from jsmailing@clickcom.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:55:13PM -0400 References: <PHEMIEFOLOKALAMFPIPCAEELCBAA.jsmailing@clickcom.com>
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:55:13PM -0400, John Straiton wrote:
> tar is teasing me. here's my situation:
>=20
> I'd like to tar.gz all the /home directories on my machine every night, i=
nto
> separate files (for easy restoration), however there are of course some
> files that I don't want copied into the tar. Lets use the file quota.users
> for example. I would like to use the exclude-file option of tar but here's
> the problem
>=20
> tar czfX testfile.tar.gz excluded.files /home
>=20
> with excluded.files simply having the line "home/quota.user" in it works
> fine, but
> tar czfX testfile.tar.gz excluded.files /home/*
> does not. Nor does it work with an exclude file that says:
> home/quota.user
> quota.user
> *.user
> /home/quota.user
> ./quota.user
>=20
> Which is giving me grief because my script reads like:
> for i in `ls /home`
> do
> tar czfX /backup-directory-structure/$i.tar.gz excluded.files /home/$i
> done
>=20
> Now I know that I could simply tell the .sh script to exclude that file, =
but
> the proper way to do it would be with tar's exclude option since it scales
> better.
>=20
> Ideas?
> John Straiton - ClickCom, Inc.
> jks@clickcom.com - (704)365-9970x101
>=20
>=20
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This worked for me:
$ cat ~/tmp/excluded.files
quota.user
exclude2
$ ls -R ~/tmp/home/
user1 user2 user3 user4
/home/casimiro/tmp/home/user1:
include1 quota.user
/home/casimiro/tmp/home/user2:
include1 include2 quota.user
/home/casimiro/tmp/home/user3:
include1 include2
/home/casimiro/tmp/home/user4:
exclude2 include1 quota.user
$ for d in `ls ~/tmp/home/`
- do
- tar czvfX /usr/tmp/${d}.tar.gz ~/tmp/excluded.files -C ~/tmp/home/ $d
- done
user1/
user1/include1
user2/
user2/include1
user2/include2
user3/
user3/include1
user3/include2
user4/
user4/include1
Tar excluded quota.user from user1, user2 and user4 and exclude2 from user4=
as
requested.
Hope this helps.
Francesco Casadei
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