If your intention is to skip over all "directories" names "Internet" use the command line you had.
tar -cvzf /backup/win.tar /root/peon/ --exclude-from /root/cron/bkup_cfg/win_exclude The contents of the exclude file should simply be: Internet Quotes are not used inside the file (Only the command line). You don;t need the *'s to specify wildcards in this case. Please not that any subdirectory called "Internet" will not be processed (no matter how nested it is). Mike On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 00:18, Shawn wrote: > 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 -- Mike Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. Suite 1002,1140-15th Ave SW. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2R 1K6. (403)804-5700. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
