[CentOS] tar exclude question

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:56:58 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On 03/15/2011 10:25 AM, Rainer Traut wrote:
> ...
> > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> 
> Add -P to include leading /

You really don't want to do that!  Makes restoring to an alternitive
location difficult.

> 
> Mogens
> 

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