Change your exclude file to contain: /backup/* /dev/* /proc/* /sys/* > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 05:37:53 -0500 > From: Shawn Fertch <sfertch at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] exclude option in tar (Bare metal recovery > planning) > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Message-ID: <67f3084a050802033718b2abdf at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 8/1/05, Josh Welch <josh at joshwelch.com> wrote: > > I've had lousy luck using the exclude option from the command line. I > > have had luck with creating a file containing a list of directories to > > exclude and using the exclude-from option. This works for me: > > > > tar -cvf /backup/backup.tar / --exclude-from /backup/exclude.txt > > > > exclude.txt looks like this: > > > > /backup > > /dev > > /proc > > /sys > > > > If you really wanted to make it a single script, you could do something > > that echos lines out to a file before running the tar command, kind of a > > hack but the best answer that I have. > > > Thanks, Josh. I tried that with the -X option instead of typing out > the full --exclude-from, but it's still picking up the excluded > directories. I'll give it a go with fully specifying the > --exclude-from option. --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---