Tar on BAFMhttps://christian.blog.pakiheim.de/tags/tar/Recent content in Tar on BAFMHugo -- 0.160.1enFri, 24 Jul 2009 13:40:18 +0000Exclude a directory from tarhttps://christian.blog.pakiheim.de/posts/2009-07-24_exclude-a-directory-from-tar/Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:40:18 +0000http://blog.barfoo.org/?p=2425<p>Damn tar is kinda weird .. usually, you specifiy excludes in the manner of &ndash;exclude=&quot;/path/to/exclude&quot;. But tar needs to do things differently.</p> <div class="highlight"><div class="chroma"> <table class="lntable"><tr><td class="lntd"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-1"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-1">1</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-2"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-2">2</a> </span></code></pre></td> <td class="lntd"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span class="line"><span class="cl">tar -cvpf /xen-dom0.tar --exclude &#34;/proc/*&#34; --exclude &#34;/sys/*&#34; </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> --exclude &#34;/dev/*&#34; --exclude &#34;/xen-dom0.tar&#34; / </span></span></code></pre></td></tr></table> </div> </div>