Franco Martelli, 28.03.2013: > Hi, > I'm on Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 amd64, I always used tar command for my > backups using a couple of file to include and exclude directories. > Now something strange it happens: > (username) means the name which it's used to login to the system. > > root@mitas:~# tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.23 > root@mitas:~# tar zcpf /tmp/bck.tgz -X out -T in > root@mitas:~# cat out > /home/(username)/linux-source-2.6.32 > > root@mitas:~# cat in > /home/(username)/linux-source-2.6.32/.config > > root@mitas:~# ls -l /tmp/bck.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 27 mar 15.33 /tmp/bck.tgz > > Tar command creates an empty bck.tgz file (45 bytes length) could > anybody tell me why isn't .config file archive by tar?
Aren't you excluding it by what you have in file "out"? (The pattern to exclude is a superset of the pattern to include.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130328194820.ga4...@cs.utexas.edu
