Arun K. Khan wrote:

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On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 21:11 +0530, Amish Mehta wrote: Arun K. Khan wrote:

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# 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

Specify each on separate line (not separated by space).

Does it work for you (version of tar)?

My verions of tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 --- packaged with RH9

Command I run is tar czvp -X bkpexclude base libs demo website > bkp.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.tgz

base, libs, demo, website are directories to backup

bkpexclude contains base/bin demo/bin website/notimp

Amish.