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I want 'tar' to exclude certain dir's.

tar cvf ............. ............ does the whole lot, but I want to exclude the 'log' dirs.

does this help?

tar cvf filename.tar
Create a tape (tar) archive
Description: Creates a tape (tar) archive.
* (c) Create
* (v) Verbose mode
* (f) File
* (-I include_file) - List of files to archive

Example: tar cvf htmlFiles.tar -I htmlFiles

Submitter: Robert Weeks

(Source Sun BIGAdmin)

Thank you.

I back up to a hardrive which I've mounted to ./backup using 'tar cvf' and that works fine and very fast.

It's just that I run a system with a lot of extensive logfiles, which I do not need to back up. They are in the middle of things, so I want to exclude these.

It says that tar accepts exclusions, but I cannot find the right way of putting down the command.

It's Solaris 8

tar cfX tarball.tar exclude_file -I include_file

Thanks!

I now use the syntax: 'tar cvf tarball.tar include_file'

Can I use:

'tar cvf tarball.tar include_file -X exclude_file'

instead of your proposed syntax ???

I hope so, but I dun think so

I tried to exclude ex1.sh from tar ....
May not be viable solution.

Code:

      $chmod 400 ex1.sh
      $tar -cvf 1.tar .
      $ tar -xvf 1.tar
x .
x ./abc
x ./file1, 0 bytes, 0 media blocks.
x ./file2, 0 bytes, 0 media blocks.
x ./bcd
x ./bcd/file1, 0 bytes, 0 media blocks.
x ./hhh
x ./1.tar, 0 bytes, 0 media blocks.
tar: 0511-188 Cannot create ./ex1.sh: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.

$chmod 755 ex1.sh