Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:00:30 -0500 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: excluding from tar Message-ID: <200407102200.30326.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <2785.192.168.1.1.1089514540.squirrel@192.168.1.1> References: <2785.192.168.1.1.1089514540.squirrel@192.168.1.1>
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On Saturday 10 July 2004 09:55 pm, D Golden wrote:
> I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude
> everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when
> updating the archive. I've tried:
>
> 1. cd / && tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc
> --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/usr/backup.tar
>
> 2. cd / && tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc/*
> --exclude=/usr/ports/* --exclude=/usr/backup.tar
>
> 3. cd / && tar -vu -X /root/nodump --file /usr/backup.tar *
>
> and in /root/nodump I have 3 lines:
>
> /proc # Also tried /proc/*
> /usr/ports # Also tried /usr/ports/*
> /usr/backup.tar
>
> However, in all three examples, /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE get
> updated.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Dana
Here is what I use - hack to suit:
tar -zcf racerx@${ver}`date +%m%d%y`.tgz
--exclude-from /usr/home/backups/exclude.txt racerx/
Have all the excludes in the file /exclude.txt
racerx# more exclude.txt
/usr/home/backups/*
/usr/home/racerx/Desktop/MP3/*
/usr/home/racerx/downloads/*
/usr/home/racerx/dcc/*
>
>
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Best regards,
Chris
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