On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:53:58 +0200, LEVAI Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:42:24 +0300, Michael Sioutis wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I can't find it in the man page, and it seems it is not supported (?) >> I am trying to backup some folders and want to exclude some and nth >> will work. I've tried: >> --exclude=/folder/ >> --exclude="/folder/ >> --exclude /folder >> --exclude "folder" >> >> I will get an error: "--exclude... directory doesn't exist". >> >> Excluding will work in Linux. >> > That is a GNU extension. You can work this around with find(1) and the > tar(1)'s '-I' option. > >
bsdtar from the FreeBSD project supports --exclude too. The OP could as well install gnu tar from packages. bsdtar doens't seem to exist... At least that's what I do at work (Debian, Solaris, OpenBSD env). It's a pain to walk around every nifty details of different unixes... Cheers, Marian
