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From: Gorden Fischer <gfish123@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: excluding a file/dir from a tar file
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Nathan:

The following code segment is taken from my nightly backup file:

tar --gzip -X /usr/local/etc/exclusion -c -f - . > /mnt/etc..tgz
 
Hope this helps.

Fischer




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