Re: [techtalk] Tar options

2001-01-23 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 24-Jan-101 [techtalk] Tar options by Bek [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anybody know why it's not working In the tar info ('info tar exclude' on my machine), it says: --- A PATTERN containing `/' excludes a name if an initial subsequence of the na

[techtalk] Tar options

2001-01-23 Thread Bek Oberin
I do backups of /home and /etc to my zip drive pretty regularly. Just recently /home got too big to fit onto the zip so I'm excluding certain files. I'm using the option "--exclude-from-file backup.excludes" and the backup.excludes file looks like this: *~ *home/news* *home/ftp* */core */log*