Rainer Traut wrote:
Nico Kadel-Garcia:
Rainer Trauttr.ml@gmx.de wrote:
Hi List,
hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup.
My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg:
20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz /etc /root /home&& touch /tmp/state_backup-backup
Try this:
20 23 * * * tar -zcf/mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz -C / etc root/home&& touch /tmp/state_backup-backup
Hmm, I already did? tar -zc -f /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz -C / etc root home && touch /tmp/state_backup-backup
But the problem with it is, as soon as you use excludes this can be dangerous because they can match everywhere in your backup path.
Check out the GNU Tar Reference manual, much more informative than "man tar". Look for CACHEDIR.TAG and --exclude-caches, works very well for me. The CACHEDIR.TAG file is added to any directory you want to skip, and tar will skip it. Here's the contents:
$ cat /var/cache/CACHEDIR.TAG Signature: 8a477f597d28d172789f06886806bc55 # This file is a cache directory tag created by (application name). # For information about cache directory tags, see: # http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/