[wellylug] backup Tar howto

Edouard Chalaron e.chalaron at paradise.net.nz
Mon Sep 15 10:30:53 NZST 2003


>
> 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.)

yeap sorry.... wrong spelling

> 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).

Cool thanks a lot 



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