If I understand you correctly, this should help. This was a suggestions
from someone else on this list about a year ago. It works for me. Good
luck,
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Here is one quick and dirty way to do that.. make a file and call it
something like "backup.exclude". Put in this file lines like this:
/bin/tar
/ash/*
/ash2/*
/dallas/*
/proc/*
Then do your tar command line as follows:
tar -X /wherever/backup.exclude -cvf /dev/tapedevice /
That should do it for you.
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Kirk Taylor wrote:
>
> I am trying to back up /boot, /home and /etc using tar. I am having a
> problem determining the options that I need to exclude files.
>
> I execute tar -v -cIpf /mnt/backup/test.tar.bz2 / -X exclude.list.test
> > tar.log
>
> What I want to do is exclude my Netscape cache and my VmWare directory.
> However, tar seems to only match filenames, where I want to exclude
> relative paths. For instance, I have the following in my exclude file:
>
> home/me/.netscape/cache
> home/me/vmware/win98
>
> but those options to not work. If I just use "cache", it will eliminate
> *all* directories that are named cache, not necessarily just those in
> the .netscape directory.
>
> So, is there a way to create the backup file that I need using tar and
> relative references instead of string matching, or should I try
> something else?
>
> #rpm -q tar
> tar-1.13.17-8
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kirk
>
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