Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

On 3/15/11 4:25 AM, Rainer Traut 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

This always sends me an unwanted email with:

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

I consider this a bug because this informal message is printed to error out?

Cd into the top directory and back up '.'. Or above it and use the name without the leading /. Absolute paths are a bad idea in backups and tar is correct in telling you that you made an error.