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Name: Six
Date: May 2, 2003 at 14:04:21 Pacific
OS: Gentoo
CPU/Ram: 1.3 512
Comment:

Is there an easy way to tar my whole partition minus one directory? I have a 6gb /usr/games which I don't want included in my backup.tar.

thanks




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Name: Balram Adlakha
Date: May 2, 2003 at 14:42:05 Pacific
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use --exclude=[pattern]

for example, tar -xvf filesystem.tar --exclude="games" /

This will make filesystem.tar tarring the whole filesystem except anything that has "games" in it.

There are more options but I don't remember them. Just do "tar --help | less" or "man tar" for more info.


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Name: David Perry
Date: May 2, 2003 at 19:59:33 Pacific
Reply:

tar cvf tarbar.tar `find . | grep -v 'games/'`


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Response Number 3
Name: Six
Date: May 2, 2003 at 21:48:35 Pacific
Reply:

ah, I found the easiest way after searching around more before I saw your replies. Thanks though.

tar -X tar.exclude -cvjpf backup.tar.bz2 /*


With this being an example tar.exclude file:
/mnt
/tmp
/usr/src
/usr/portage/distfiles
/var/tmp
/proc
/usr/games



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