Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

Am 15.03.2011 12:37, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia:

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Trauttr.ml@gmx.de wrote:

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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.

Rainer