On Monday 27 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This has puzzled me too. Is there a way of passing the equivalent of > > tar's --exclude <file_pattern> at star, rather than a file containing a > > list of files to be excluded? I have been reading the -F,-FF ... but > > have failed to understand it so far :( > > Tar has no --exclude option. > > You may be talking about a program that is not really tar compatible and > that is called gtar ;-)
Fair enough ... > Star has a pat= option since more than 20 years. Is this a matter of running something like -V -pat=/sys ? > In any case, if you like to make incremental backups, you should be very > careful with exclude options as incremental restore it cannot work if an > exclude file is renamed into the non-excluded universe. Good point, but something like /proc /sys and friends will stay the same, right? > > Also, what happens if you run star to archive a directory that contains > > man & info files? I have run this on a CentOS machine and I think I had > > to abort because it was taking for ever and the size of the archive had > > already grown to twice the size of a tar archive ... (not sure if it was > > related to me > > Star does not go into infinite loops as long as your filesystem is not > broken. What! RHEL? Ha, ha! I don't know if it went into a loop. The way that the archive size was growing I guessed that star was trying to unpack all the .gz man pages. I'll remember to try -xstar next time to see if it makes a difference. However, as you say there were some errors about missing attributes and what not (can't recall off hand). -- Regards, Mick
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