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)?

For me no effect; tar still archives the directories listed in the file. I also tried the option --exclude="files" with "files" being space/comma separated list - same problem.

Eventually, took the inverse approach i.e. list ALL the dirs that I wanted to back up on the CLI.

-- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.