[CentOS] tar exclude question

[Luigi Rosa]

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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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