[wellylug] backup Tar howto

[Arnim Littek]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Edouard Chalaron wrote:
> Is there a way I can do
>
> Tar -tvf  archive.tar /  /but_these_directory

You should get a lot of similar answers to this one.

man tar, the -X flag, or --exclude.  Assumes you're using GNU tar,
though.

Arnim.