Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

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Rainer Traut said the following on 15/03/11 10:25:

This always sends me an unwanted email with: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

Redirect the stdout/stderr to some file:

tar cvzf /mnt/mybackup.tgz /foo /bar > /var/log/backup 2> /var/log/backuperrors

Because the exclude pattern matches under dir1 my important File is not backed up. The problem is, I cannot specify the exclude pattern to match only /tmp/foo/dir2 , can I?

It's a matter of personal taste, but I find more useful the -X (or - --exclude-from) option

Ciao, luigi

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