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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!blkbox.COM!jpunix.com!not-for-mail From: perry@jpunix.com (John A. Perry) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: tar --exclude dosn't work. Date: 29 Aug 1994 09:27:31 -0500 Organization: J. P. and Associates Lines: 28 Message-ID: <33sr8j$1p0@jpunix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jpunix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I have been using tar under FreeBSD 1.1R do do my backups for quite some time with good success. Here is a new twist. I just added a Usenet feed to my site with all the associated disk usage. My news is stored in /user/usenet/spool. When I try to invoke tar --exclude /user/usenet, it tars up the entire newsfeed anyway! It appears as though the --exclude switch doesn't work or I'm calling it incorrectly or something. Can anyone help me out. Failing fixing tar, how can I back up my system excluding a particular directory hierarchy? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLmHvMlOTpEThrthvAQHbtAP+I1ktgxG058LnyxVEwxs8FMdi/6ev96Lx /Q2UOtMUZ4y8PWlAKOXi8vU7tA7SnTq8hkFAeNWYA0Sw9JbDUZDJIunLfwN22T06 eH7KF0/2khuxPbHyL4mDZDxe+noQnNfC0GVQLbOqfs4yVsFmanvShz8vVbHA+8iO wQzXS5bZwRM= =KEhy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John A. Perry - perry@jpunix.com Finger perry@jpunix.com for PGP 2.6 public key.