On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:24:45PM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want in FreeBSD RELEASE 5.2.1 tar a complete / system except one directory
> e.g. /mnt where I want to store the tar archive.
> In linux I do:
>
> cd /
> tar cvzf /mnt/root.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz . --exclude=proc --exclude=mnt
>
> Trying this in FreeBSD is not accepted because tar is still trying to tar
> the /mnt directory and the to be made archive.
Try:
# tar --exclude=proc --exclude=proc -cvzf \
/mnt/root.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz .
-Radek
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