Ionel,
If you want to exclude certain directories, play with something like this:
--
tar czf backup.tar.gz $(ls -1 /mnt/kd/ | sed -e "s/^cdr-.*//" -e
"s/^monitor$//" -e "s/^voicemail$//") -C /mnt/kd
--
This excludes cdr-*, monitor and voicemail directories.
Lonnie
On Aug 26, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Ionel Chila <ionelch...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Lonnie. I really need the exclude folder option. I am trying to
> exclude the "monitor" folder which got 4 years worth of .wav files. Will be
> hard to list every file :-) and they keep adding every day.
>
> How come this version of tar does not have the folder exclude option? Strange
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 1:00 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck
> <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>
>
> Ionel,
>
> Our 'tar' is implemented via Busybox
> --
> pbx3 ~ # tar -h
> BusyBox v1.19.4 (2015-08-25 17:52:46 CDT) multi-call binary.
>
> Usage: tar -[cxtZzjahvO] [-X FILE] [-T FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE]...
>
> Create, extract, or list files from a tar file
>
> Operation:
> c Create
> x Extract
> t List
> f Name of TARFILE ('-' for stdin/out)
> C Change to DIR before operation
> v Verbose
> Z (De)compress using compress
> z (De)compress using gzip
> j (De)compress using bzip2
> a (De)compress using lzma
> O Extract to stdout
> h Follow symlinks
> exclude File to exclude
> X File with names to exclude
> T File with names to include
> --
>
> I have used the -X excludefile option before, add your excluded files one per
> line in "excludefile"
>
> Lonnie
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Ionel Chila <ionelch...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> is the --exclude folder function broken in the current Astlinux tar version?
>> It doesn't work for me ?
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Ionel Chila
>
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