Re: excluding from tar

2004-07-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 22:55, D Golden wrote: > I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude > everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when > updating the archive. I've tried: > > 1. cd / && tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc > --exclude

Re: excluding from tar

2004-07-10 Thread Chris
On Saturday 10 July 2004 09:55 pm, D Golden wrote: > I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude > everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when > updating the archive. I've tried: > > 1. cd / && tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc > --ex

excluding from tar

2004-07-10 Thread D Golden
I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when updating the archive. I've tried: 1. cd / && tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/usr/backup.tar 2. cd / && tar -vu