09-27-2009
Creating tar file for subdirs, excluding one and preserving user info
Hi All,
I am not one of the super users / root for AIX 5.3 system.
There is a filesystem
Say
/DIR1 and its has several subdirs in it say SUBDIR1, SUBDIR2, SUBDIR3.
Can I create a tar file for all files under DIR1 and SUBDIR1, SUBDIR3. Excluding SIBDIR2?
Also how can I preserve the user information so that when I restore it should keep original user information and group information.
From forum I got that I can use
tar -cvf tarfile1 .
How do I exclude subdir2?
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