[wellylug] backup Tar howto

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <20030914215215.02ABB9E258 at smtp-2.paradise.net.nz>, Edouard Chalaron 
writes:
>I need to tar a complete box. ....well almost all in fact.
>Is there a way I can do
>
>Tar -tvf  archive.tar /  /but_these_directory

First, you realise that "-t" doesn't do a backup, it does a file
listing of things already in the archive.tar?  (You want "-c" to create
a tar file.)

Secondly I suspect that --exclude in GNU tar is probably the option
you're looking for.  It definitely works for create, and it may also
work for file list/extract/etc (never had a reason to try).

Ewen