Hello to all,
for my first post on this list, an issue I am experiencing with BusyBox
1.26.x version of tar (mipsel architecture). I want to dump a system
image from a combo USB3.0 / WiFi / Ethernet hard drive. The OS seems to
reside on a small flash chip, while the storage drive is internally
connected by USB and mounted at /data. Since the current system seems to
be using a customised version of BusyBox 1.12 where options have been
removed, I simply downloaded a more recent version in a user-accessible
folder and called the newer binary instead.
command is exactly:
./busybox-mipsel tar -czf
/data/UsbDisk1/Volume1/Share/Direct/Images/System.tar.gz / -X /data
But I also tried, without success:
./busybox-mipsel tar -czf
/data/UsbDisk1/Volume1/Share/Direct/Images/System.tar.gz / -X=/data
./busybox-mipsel tar -czf
/data/UsbDisk1/Volume1/Share/Direct/Images/System.tar.gz / --exclude=/data
./busybox-mipsel tar -czf
/data/UsbDisk1/Volume1/Share/Direct/Images/System.tar.gz / --exclude=/data/*
However, for some reason this command doesn't exclude the /data
sub-tree, and instead starts on generating an enormous System.tar.gz
file, which is obviously not the correct one.
What is the exact syntax for excluding a given sub-tree?
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