[CentOS] tar exclude question

Rainer Traut tr.ml at gmx.de
Tue Mar 15 11:56:07 UTC 2011


Am 15.03.2011 12:37, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Traut<tr.ml at gmx.de>  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
>
> 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



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