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From: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 13:42:24 GMT
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Subject: Re: tar --exclude dosn't work.
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in article <34619a$dvq@hermes.unt.edu>,
from 2 Sep 1994 02:05:30 GMT,
jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu also known as "Bruce Jackson",
wrote [shortend]:
[...]
> In article <33sr8j$1p0@jpunix.com>, John A. Perry <perry@jpunix.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have been using tar under FreeBSD 1.1R do do my backups for quite
> > some time with good success. Here is a new twist. I just added a
> > Usenet feed to my site with all the associated disk usage. My news is
> > stored in /user/usenet/spool. When I try to invoke tar --exclude
> > /user/usenet, it tars up the entire newsfeed anyway! It appears
> > as though the --exclude switch doesn't work or I'm calling it
> > incorrectly or something. Can anyone help me out. Failing fixing tar,
> > how can I back up my system excluding a particular directory
> > hierarchy?
>
> You are using this option incorrectly. The argument to "--exclude"
> needs to be a file containing the files or regular expressions that
> match the files you do not want to archive. To exclude /user/usenet
> just put "/user/usenet" on a line in a file and then use the filename
> as the argument to --exclude.
I looked at the man page and help output from tar:
--exclude FILE exclude file FILE
-X, --exclude-from FILE exclude files listed in FILE
I've tried
tar --exclude /s0/siscadp -cv /s0
where '/s0/siscadp' is the directory to exclude, this works. The dash
before 'cv' is important if you use double-dash options also.
I'm talking about GNU tar 1.11.2
> > John A. Perry - perry@jpunix.com
> Bruce Jackson | Univ. of North Texas | jackson@cs.unt.edu
> UNIX Systems Admin. | P. O. Box 13886 | GAB 550E (817)565-2279
> Dept. of Computer Sci.| Denton, Tx. 76203-3886 | FAX: (817)565-2799
Greetings, Nora.
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