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