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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Creating tar file for subdirs, excluding one and preserving user info Post 302356797 by Hangman2 on Sunday 27th of September 2009 06:57:14 PM
Old 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?

Smilie
 

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REPQUOTA(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       REPQUOTA(8)

NAME
repquota -- summarize quotas for a file system SYNOPSIS
repquota [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ... repquota [-g] [-u] [-v] -a DESCRIPTION
Repquota prints a summary of the disk usage and quotas for the specified file systems. Available options: -a Print the quotas of all the filesystems configured with a quota mount option file at its root. -g Print only group quotas (the default is to print both group and user quotas if they exist). -u Print only user quotas (the default is to print both group and user quotas if they exist). -v Print a header line before printing each filesystem quotas. For each user or group, the current number of files and amount of space (in kilobytes) is printed, along with any quotas created with edquota(8). Only members of the operator group or the super-user may use this command. FILES
Each of the following quota files is located at the root of the mounted filesystem. The mount option files are empty files whose existence indicates that quotas are to be enabled for that filesystem. .quota.user data file containing user quotas .quota.group data file containing group quotas .quota.ops.user mount option file used to enable user quotas .quota.ops.group mount option file used to enable group quotas SEE ALSO
quota(1), quotactl(2), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8) DIAGNOSTICS
Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory. HISTORY
The repquota command appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution March 28, 2002 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
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