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Operating Systems Solaris TAR exclude is not working ! Post 302968464 by mrn6430 on Wednesday 9th of March 2016 02:53:38 PM
Old 03-09-2016
Worked perfectly. Thank you
1) How can I exclude multiple dir from /Data in this command:

Code:
 tar -cvf /export/home/backups/$audit-Data-$useday.bkup.tar <(echo /Data/ssg/output) /Data

2) I do have gtar installed. How do you use gtar in this case? I never used it before?

Thanks
Last edited by mrn6430; 03-09-2016 at 04:36 PM..
 

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systemd-importd.service

SYSTEMD-IMPORTD.SERVICE(8)				      systemd-importd.service					SYSTEMD-IMPORTD.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-importd.service, systemd-importd - VM and container image import and export service

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-importd.service

       /lib/systemd/systemd-importd

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-importd is a system service that allows importing, exporting and downloading of system images suitable for running as VM or
       containers. It is a companion service for systemd-machined.service(8), and provides the implementation for machinectl(1)'s pull-raw,
       pull-tar, import-raw, import-tar, export-raw, and export-tar commands.

       See the importd D-Bus API Documentation[1] for information about the APIs systemd-importd provides.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), machinectl(1), systemd-machined.service(8), systemd-nspawn(1)

NOTES

	1. importd D-Bus API Documentation
	   https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/importd

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