I'm out of ideas. You can specify a list of filenames to add to the archive from a directory tree -- using find, but I've never tried it.
Note: AFAIK this works only in cpio mode, which already allows you to specify file types to include anyway. Try cpio mode.
This is why I specifically mentioned tar. It has an exclude option that is an exclude file, which lists actual file names to exclude - you populate it with the find command I gave above.
I am taking a backup of area with the following command:-
tar -cf -./* |/usr/contrin/bin/gzip >xxx.tar.gz.
The area contains following files :-
xxxx
yyyy
zzzzz
asdaD
DASdD
WQWEE
I want to backup all the files except yyyy from the following area.
I checked manual page of tar but I... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to get the disk usage of a directory. But I want it to ignore a particular directory within it.
Lets say I want disk usage of all files/dirs within dir1 except those that are named .snapshot
Does du have the option of excluding a particular directory. (1 Reply)
If I execute the command "ls -l /export/home/abcde/dev/proj/code/* | awk -F' ' '{print $9}' | cut -d'/' -f6-8" it will list all the files in /export/home/abcde/dev/proj/code/ directory as well as the files in subdirectories also
proj/code/test.sh
proj/code/test1.c
proj/code/unix... (8 Replies)
HI,
I have upgraded nim master and client to TL8,SP6. Now when the mksysb backup ran from master,it is not excluding directories specified in /etc/exclude.rootvg in the client.Instead,mksysb is getting created for all the file systems in the rootvg. This problem only appeared after the TL... (3 Replies)
Dear all experts online,
In my environment of AIX 5300-07, I am currently using "pax" command to backup all filesystems that I need to backup and it will take me around 4 hours time with LTO3 tape drive.
When I need to verify the tape after backup, I am using "pax" command to list all files in... (2 Replies)
Dear all experts,
I would like to know if a pax command backup of AIX files can be restored into Linux environment run in Wintel server?
Currently I have a Full database backup using "pax" command in AIX box(IBM pSeries), the new management decison of the new server is on Wintel server which is... (5 Replies)
I am familiar with using tar and exclude/include files:
tar zcf backup.dirs.tgz --files-from=include.mydirs --exclude-from=exclude.mydirs --no-recursion
but was wondering if I could use find in the same way. I know that you can just specify the directories to exclude but my list is... (2 Replies)
I am new to Shell Scripting and need some help.
The following batch job has been failing for me due to the .nfsxxx files in use. I need to know how to modify the following script to exclude the .nfsxxx files so this batch job will not fail on me. I have done lots of googling and keep coming back... (2 Replies)
Hello AIX experts,
I have a file system called /bossapp
Its size = 77.5 GB
I want to take a File Systems backup for this one using smitty, it is very easy, but the problem is I want to exclude one directory called (ORIGIN).
How?
The steps are very easy to take a File Systems backup,... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to exlucde the files which are present in exclude.txt from a directory
exlcude.txt
AUZ.txt
AUZ.chk
NZ.txt
NZ.chk
tried with below code but not working
ls -ltr | grep -v `cat exclude.lst` (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: rohit_shinez
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
cpio
cpio(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual cpio(4)NAME
cpio - format of cpio archive
DESCRIPTION
The header structure, when the option of is not used (see cpio(1)), is:
When the option is used, the header information is described by:
Longtime and Longfile are equivalent to and respectively. The contents of each file are recorded together with other items describing the
file. Every instance of contains the constant 070707 (octal). The items through have meanings explained in stat(2). The length of the
null-terminated path name including the null byte, is given by
The last record of the archive always contains the name Directories and the trailer are recorded with equal to zero.
It will not always be the case that and correspond to the results of but the values are always sufficient to tell whether two files in the
archive are linked to each other.
When a device special file is archived by HP-UX (using the option), contains a magic constant which is dependent upon the implementation
doing the writing. flags the device file as an HP-UX 32-bit device specifier, and contains the 32-bit device specifier (see stat(2)). If
the option is not present, special files are not archived or restored. Non-HPUX device special files are never restored.
SEE ALSO cpio(1), find(1), stat(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE cpio(4)