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Re: HOWTO: Backup files with tar
by Shawn on Wednesday July 16, @12:15PM

Is it possible to exclude directories while 'taring' I would like to tar my entire /home directory with many user directories and exclude one of those directories. I have been using tar and ssh together to back up a 40G /home partition onto a separate remote machine with a removable harddrive of 20G. Yesterday the gzipped tarball finally made it over the 20G mark. ther is one directory /home/unwanted_dir that is 8G that I don't need to back up. Shawn

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Re: HOWTO: Backup files with tar
by John McFarlane on Wednesday August 20, @12:44PM

yes, you can use --exclude here is a quick example: tar pzcvf /usr/_usr.tar.gz --exclude /usr/_usr.tar.gz /usr

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Re: HOWTO: Backup files with tar
by Gary M on Thursday January 27, @10:35AM

tar cf tarballname /home --exclude "/home/somedir" (most of us were human when we created these programs, like tar, so we used mostly common sense commands - also we knew how to spell most of them -, especially in the options/flags)

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