Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:58:14 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: file patterns and tar Message-ID: <80f4f2b20708300758v56c71856u1ce737a0a2caff9e@mail.gmail.com>
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I want to create a backup of some parts of my system, but not everything
ex, I want to exclude /bin, and /usr/bin, but not /usr/local/bin -
same for *sbin, *lib, and *libexec
however, if I used
tar -jcvf test.tbz \
--exclude /bin --exclude /usr/bin \
--exclude /dev --exclude /var --exclude /tmp \
--exclude /root --exclude /proc / | \
tar -tf - | grep bin
I don't get /usr/local/bin files.
I coudln't find more help in tar, either through tar --help or man
tar, though I know it says that it is excluding leading slashes in
file names (which is probably causing this issue). What should I do,
short of running tars for /, /usr/ and /usr/local, or is that the only
real option? But then there is always the possiblility of missing
something because its name just happens to contain bin, or more likely
contains lib.
Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton
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