Am 15.03.2011 10:37, schrieb Luigi Rosa: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 Yes Luigi, I know how to do this... but cron has the ability to send mail (I only want to see real error messages) and tar just does not behave right - no output if no error occured. >> 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 Yes, personal taste, but in crontab confusing not seeing the excludes and besides that it has the same problem. Rainer