On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Winston Smith wrote:
> My suggestion above assumes you use tar cv -X /tmp/excludes -p
> --atime-preserve ./* -- | ...
> ^^^ instead of tar cv -X
> /tmp/excludes -p --atime-preserve * -- | ...
its supposed to be
tar cf menas you want a file
tar zcf tar-file.tgz
tar -X means you want to exclude "it" from the tar-file.tgz
if you wantto exclude a bunch of um
vi /tmp/excludes.txt
-X /tmp
-X /proc
-X /BACKUP
-X /var/log
-- new example
tar zcvf /BACKUP/tar-file.tgz -X `cat /tmp/excludes.txt`
#
# quickie test to ignore host* files and /etc/gconf
#
tar zcvf /tmp/t.tgz /etc --exclude /etc/hosts* \
--exclude /etc/gconf --exclude /etc/selinux
-- i prefer --exclude instead of -X
for excluding directories in addition to files
c ya
alvin
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