Jean-Louis Martineau writes: >On 11/04/17 11:41 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote:
>>>> newlaptop.local.net /home/hymie/2 /home { >>>> simple-gnutar-remote >>>> include "./hymie/[m-z]*" >>>> } >> ? /usr/bin/tar: ./hymie/[m-z]*: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file >> or directory > >$ man amgtar I'm not using amgtar, I'm using gnutar. Not sure if that matters. >INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE LISTS > Similarly, include expressions are supplied to GNU-tar's --files-from > option. This option ordinarily does not accept any sort of wildcards, > but amgtar "manually" applies glob pattern matching to include > expressions with only one slash. The expressions must still begin with > "./", so this effectively only allows expressions like "./[abc]*" or > "./*.txt". > > >./hymie/[m-z]* have more than one slash so it is used as a path, no glob >matching. Interesting. So this seems to have worked for the backup (only one slash) newlaptop.local.net /home/hymie/2 /home/hymie { simple-gnutar-remote include "./z*" } despite the documentation saying that the "diskdevice" must be a mount point (it isn't anymore). Recovery appears to work too, although I have to make sure that I use the correct "setdisk" command. Thank you -- you may have solved my problem. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hy...@lactose.homelinux.net