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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Exclude a directory to tar Post 302297388 by aceqbaceq on Friday 13th of March 2009 08:57:59 AM
Old 03-13-2009
common style using "tar+exclude" suggested in internet sources is like:


tar \
- -exclude… \
- -exclude… \
- -exclude… \

- -exclude… \
-cvpzf home_bup.tgz /home/username

but i think it is a very annoying method.

I suggest next:

for fedora core

tar cvpzPf /tmp/backup.tar.gz –exclude={/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/dev/*} /

for Debian

tar cvfpP /tmp/debian2.tar –exclude={”/proc/*”,”/sys*”,”/tmp/*”,”/home/user/*”} /

and more common if i need backup using ssh (ssh+nice+tar)

ssh root@192.168.0.1 “cd /;nice -n 10 tar cvpP –exclude={”/proc/*”,”/sys*”,”/tmp/*”,”/home/user/*”} /”>backup.tar.gz

Smilie

and before "exclude" we have two "-" not one.
 

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volmgt_root(3VOLMGT)					Volume Management Library Functions				      volmgt_root(3VOLMGT)

NAME
volmgt_root - return the Volume Management root directory SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lvolmgt [ library ... ] #include <volmgt.h> const char *volmgt_root(void); DESCRIPTION
The volmgt_root() function returns the current Volume Management root directory, which by default is /vol but can be configured to be in a different location. RETURN VALUES
The volmgt_root() function returns pointer to a static string containing the root directory for Volume Management. ERRORS
This function may fail if an open() of /dev/volctl fails. If this occurs a pointer to the default Volume Management root directory is returned. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Finding the Volume Management root directory. To find out where the Volume Management root directory is: if ((path = volmgt_root()) != NULL) { (void) printf("Volume Management root dir=%s ", path); } else { (void) printf("can't find Volume Management root dir "); } FILES
/vol default location for the Volume Management root directory ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cc(1B), vold(1M), open(2), volmgt_check(3VOLMGT), volmgt_inuse(3VOLMGT), volmgt_running(3VOLMGT), attributes(5), volfs(7FS) NOTES
This function returns the default root directory location even when Volume Management is not running. SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 2001 volmgt_root(3VOLMGT)
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