3 Jun
2006
3 Jun
'06
2:48 p.m.
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 05:46:07PM +0530, Arun K. Khan wrote:
/dev/sda1 is mounted on / /dev/sda2 is mounted on /home /dev/hda1 is mounted on /data1 /dev/hda2 is mounted on /data2 OS - SuSE 10.0 x86_64
# tar -cvjf /data2/sys-backup.tar.bz2 / --exclude-from=/exclude-file
/exclude_file is a text file with (directories space separated on one line): /home /data1 /data2
Try those entries in exclude-file without the leading /.
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