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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!brushtail.hna.com.au!mjm From: mjm@SPAMMERS.hna.BUGGER.com.OFF.au (Matt McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: tar - excluding files Date: 7 Jul 1997 11:19:05 GMT Organization: Hunter Network Association, Australia Lines: 19 Message-ID: <slrn5s1k59.7l2.mjm@praetor.hna.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: praetor.hna.com.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44064 I realise that this isn't a FreeBSD-specific question, but... I'm trying to do backups to tape, and there is some stuff that I don't really want to backup (/dev, /proc, /var/news, /usr/ports, /sys, /usr/src, and so on), but I can't for the life of me figure out how to make tars --exclude option work. I've tried it as: --exclude "the various stuff I don't want backed up", as --exclude dev --exclude proc, etc, and also as --exclude "dev/*" --exclude "proc*", etc, but it insists on dumping them to tape anyway - which seems to work OK, but I don't really want to stick the whole news-spool on tape. If someone could enlighten me, I'd be greatly appreciative. -- Matt McLeod, <mjm(at)hna.com.au> "Please try to understand before one of us dies".