Hi all. I've taken my cue from Brian and his efforts to provide a backup over an SMB share. I'm trying to backup my Windows data to my Linux server. I've got the SMB parts working right but am having some troubles with TAR.
When I enter this command: tar -cvzf /backup/win.tar /root/peon/ everything works fine. However, there's a few large folders that I do not want to backup (Linux ISOs for instance). So, I'm trying to tell tar to exclude those files like so: tar -cvzf /backup/win.tar /root/peon/ --exclude-from /root/cron/bkup_cfg/win_exclude and my win_exclude file contains: '*/Internet/*' The problem is that the moment I include the exclude-from option, tar refuses to run. I don't get any errors though. So, suspect my usage of the exclude-from option is wrong (though this seems fine based on what the man pages tell me, and what info I could find online), or the contents of my win_exclude file is wrong. I read the details at http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_mono/tar.html#SEC90, and the section below that one, and it seems I'm trying to do things right. Can any tar guru's shed some light on this? In particular, I want to grab everything on the share point, but ignore certain folders. Thanks. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
