03-29-2011
A tar archive is a better way to go. I wasn't sure if you had encountered tar yet so I didn't mention it. Your backup file, backup.tgz, is going to be created in the current directory. So you need to cd to destination directory first. It is going to be a very large file. Make sure you have plenty of free space in the destination. You are backing up pretty much everything.
You should make sure that you exclude the directory containing backup.tgz. You show an exclude for /backup.tgz. That implies that you plan to put the backup file in the root directory. We usually would put it elsewhere.
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Dist::Zilla::App::Command::build(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Dist::Zilla::App::Command::build(3pm)
NAME
Dist::Zilla::App::Command::build - build your dist
VERSION
version 4.300020
SYNOPSIS
dzil build [ --trial ] [ --tgz | --no-tgz ] [ --in /path/to/build/dir ]
DESCRIPTION
This command is a very thin layer over the Dist::Zilla "build" method, which does all the things required to build your distribution. By
default, it will also archive your distribution and leave you with a complete, ready-to-release distribution tarball.
EXAMPLE
$ dzil build
$ dzil build --no-tgz
$ dzil build --in /path/to/build/dir
OPTIONS
--trial
This will build a trial distribution. Among other things, it will generally mean that the built tarball's basename ends in -TRIAL.
--tgz | --no-tgz
Builds a .tar.gz in your project directory after building the distribution.
--tgz behaviour is by default, use --no-tgz to disable building an archive.
--in
Specifies the directory into which the distribution should be built. If necessary, the directory will be created. An archive will not be
created.
AUTHOR
Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Ricardo SIGNES.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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