[ILUG-BOM] tar question ...

/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

The tar man page describes --exclude-from=FILE should skip the entries in FILE. However, in my case tar merrily backed up /home, /data1, and /data2 i.e. ignored --exclude-from option. what the ????? There is no example of the entry format of FILE.

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