[ale] Tarring Root FS

[Christopher Fowler]

If you read my command line you'll see that I'm using --exclude now to
try and tell tar to not grab anything in /mksysb/.  I'm not getting the
desired results. 




On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:27 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri December 9 2005 3:12 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I'm trying to make a backup of my hard drive without including the
> > directory /mksysb.  Tar keeps pulling files from that directory.
> > 
> man tar:
> 
>  --exclude=FILE
>               exclude file FILE
> 
>        -X, --exclude-from=FILE
>               exclude files listed in FILE
> 
> and info tar:
> 
> `--exclude=PATTERN'
>      When performing operations, `tar' will skip files that match
>      PATTERN.
> 
> `--exclude-from=FILE'
> `-X FILE'
>      Similar to `--exclude', except `tar' will use the list of patterns
>      in the file FILE.
> 
> `--exclude-caches'
>      Automatically excludes all directories containing a cache
>      directory tag.
> 
> another way would be to specify files:
> --file=ARCHIVE'
> `-f ARCHIVE'
>      `tar' will use the file ARCHIVE as the `tar' archive it performs
>      operations on, rather than `tar''s compilation dependent default.
> 
> `--files-from=FILE'
> `-T FILE'
>      `tar' will use the contents of FILE as a list of archive members
>      or files to operate on, in addition to those specified on the
>      command-line.
> 
> ------
> dontcha just HATE man pages???? you really have to know what you want 
> before you look for it!
>