Thanks, Colin. :) FYI, I was able to --force-downgrade to tar 1.12-7 from slink and it seems to work fine.
I guess I'll just use the older version (unless there's a reason not to on a production server) until the bug is closed. Cheers................................. > Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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/* * > > [snip] > > >My problem is that the --exclude command no longer works the way it used > >to. > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/59/59829.html > > I'll have a look at this, but it's not release-critical so any fix won't > make it into potato. (Using . instead of * at the end seems to cause > fewer matching files to be included, but some of them still make it > through.) > > >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. > > Hard to say - maybe they have specific fixes in their version. > > >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. > > You might want to consider using find(1) and --exclude-from instead. If > you use bash's process substitution capabilities as well, you can write > something like this (only semi-tested): > > # tar --same-owner -czpvf /home/ftp/pub/backups/main.tgz \ > > --exclude-from <(find /proc) --exclude-from <(find /tmp) \ > > --exclude-from <(find /home/ftp/pub) . > > This can potentially be a lot slower, though, so is only a temporary > workaround. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt --Someday, I'll have a web page.--
