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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users GNUTAR exclude directories Post 35560 by Perderabo on Thursday 17th of April 2003 11:44:19 AM
Old 04-17-2003
We seem to have several problems here....

xargs collects as many arguments as will fit on a line and then invokes the given program. A find command might find 1000's of files. So rather than, say, doing an "rm" 1000's of times, it better to use xargs. Then you may only use a few dozen rm commands, each one having a full argument list.

But this doesn't extend to "tar cvf /some/file". If you have too many arguments for one command line, you will get two command lines. The second "tar cvf /some/file" will overwrite the contents of the first. If you are not encountering this problem, you must not have very many files.

Next, when you ask tar to backup a directory, it will backup the contents of the directory as well.
So:
tar cvf /tmp/data.tar /appl/data /appl/data/somefile
is not going to backup one directory and one file. That "/appl/data" will cause tar to pick up the whole thing. The /appl/data/somefile will put a second copy of somefile in the archive. Your find command will output /appl/data as its first line. That already gets you everything.

And none of this has anything at all to do with exclude files which is where the thread started.

What you're supposed to do is to create a file and put the stuff in it that you want to exclude. So, for example, edit the file /tmp/ExcludeFile and put in the following two lines:
/appl/data/temp1
/appl/data/temp2
Then use the command:
tar cvfX /tmp/datadir.tar /tmp/ExcludeFile /appl/data
 

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ndmp(4) 							   File Formats 							   ndmp(4)

NAME

       ndmp - configuration properties for Solaris Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) server

DESCRIPTION

       The behavior of the Solaris NDMP server is specified by property values that are stored in the Service Management Facility, smf(5).

       An authorized user can use the ndmpadm(1M) command to set global values for these properties in SMF.

       You can set the following properties by using the ndmpadm set command:

       backup-quarantine       Backup the files marked as quarantined by AV. Acceptable values are yes or no. The default is no.

       dar-support	       Set the Direct Access Recovery mode. Acceptable values are yes or no. The default is no.

       debug-level	       Set the debug level. The debug-level can be set to either 0 (off) or 1 (on). The default is 0.

       debug-path	       The path to which to save the debug log. The default is /var/ndmp.

       dump-pathnode	       Enable  or  disable  backing  up the directories containing modified files or directories in dump(1) backup format.
			       Acceptable values are yes or no. The default is no.

       ignore-ctime	       Determines whether the change timestamp (ctime) of files and directories is used to determine whether a file should
			       be  backed  up  in level backup. If this parameter is set to yes, only the modification time (mtime) of the file or
			       directory determines whether it should be backed up. Acceptable values are yes or no. The default value is no.

       overwrite-quarantine    Restore quarantined files on top of current files if they already exist. Acceptable  values  are  yes  or  no.  The
			       default value is no.

       restore-quarantine      Restore the files that had been marked as quarantined by AV and are backed up. Acceptable values are yes or no. The
			       default value is no.

       tar-pathnode	       Enable or disable backing up the directories containing modified files or  directories  in  tar(1)  backup  format.
			       Acceptable values are yes or no. The default value is no.

       token-maxseq	       Set  the  maximum sequence number for subsequent token-based incremental backup in NDMP-V4. The default value is 9.
			       There are two limits for this value: soft-limit, which is 59, and hard-limit, equal to 64. If  the  token  sequence
			       number,	passed	by the DMA, is between the soft and hard limits, a warning message is issued to the DMA. The token
			       sequence number can never exceed the hard-limit value.

       version		       Set the maximum active NDMP protocol version. Valid values are currently 2, 3, and 4. The default is 4.

       The following property can only be set when using the ndmpadm enable or ndmpadm disable command:

       auth-type    Sets the password encryption type for the authentication of local users. Valid values are cram-md5 or cleartext.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWndmpu, SUNWndmpr	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

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