Hello, all, Some may remember my post about this a short while back. My apologies for the redundancy, and for the posts to 2 different lists if that's inappropriate. I still don't have a resolution to my situation and am curious where to go from here.
My potato server (ftp/www/mail.mattyt.net) is running potato in one big partition (except for /home/ftp/pub). The easiest way for me to do periodic backups is to create one big tarball of the whole installation. The way I always did this before was to log in as root, cd to /, and execute a command such as this: # tar --same-owner -czpvf /home/ftp/pub/backups/main.tgz --exclude=proc/* --exclude=tmp/* --exclude=home/ftp/pub/* * This would create a tarball in my ftp space, without including any of the dynamic/garbage info in /proc or in /tmp. It also wouldn't include all the various files in /home/ftp/pub, especially the newly created tarball image. It *would*, however, include the empty directories themselves. My problem is that the --exclude command no longer works the way it used to. This is my current version of tar: doma:/# tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17 Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; see the file named COPYING for details. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. When I used to use --exclude, it would include the /proc, /tmp, etc. directories, but not their contents. This meant that if my system crashed (or whatever), restoring was a fairly trivial process. Now, however, when I issue the above mentioned lengthy tar command, it goes ahead and includes all the files in the directories I have told it to exclude. The most interesting part of all this, to me at least, is that the same version of tar under Linux Mandrake 7.1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17 Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; see the file named COPYING for details. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. ...still operates the way I remember it. I use Mandrake for my desktop machine as it auto-configures lots of stuff like my VooDoo 2 card and also has a much more complete KDE installation. I use Debian as my server because it is much easier to use dselect to install a lean server with only the packages I need (no X, etc.), plus I'm sure the default security is better under Debian. I *really* don't want to use Mandrake for my server, especially for the want of one argument for one program. The short version: tar --exclude v1.13.17 under Mandrake 7.1 works the way it always has, tar --exclude v1.13.17 under potato doesn't. I'm kind of pulling out my hair here, guys (especially since I start a new Network Admin position next week). Any help you can give to resolve this somewhat bizarre issue would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks :) Cheers......................... Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt --Someday, I'll have a web page.--
