Mythical Proportions wrote:
2 GNOME questions for you... 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$Search the list archives for this one because it's been answered so many times before. Look for the responses from Havoc.
you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't
appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls the gnome
menu (both per user and globally)?
3) I want to start tarring my home folders for backup. I know you canFirst of all, your tar command needs to be fixed. Try this:
tell tar to exclude certain files/folders, but I can't seem to get the
syntax write based on the man and --help stuff. I want to exclude one
folder within /home/user1 that has music files. So... #: tar -cvz archive.tar /home/user1 doesn't cut it. Anyone have any advice?
tar cvzf archive.tar.gz /home/user1
As for the folder exclusion you use either --exclude=PATTERN or --exclude-from=FILE.
IMO, the easy way to do what you want is to use an exclude file and create a list of all the things you don't want in the archive. For example:
You want to backup everything except the mp3 files you have in ~/music.
Create a file /home/user1/exclude which only contains this line
--
music
--
Then run this command:
tar cvzf archive.tar.gz /home/user1 --exclude-from=/home/user1/exclude
That should take care of it. There are other ways to solve this problem, but having an exclude file is great because you can just add lines to it as needed and keep the tar command line simple.
Tom
