On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Radek Kozlowski wrote: > 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
Yes, thanx - that did the trick. I only wonder why tar is on one side accepting this order and on the other side it isn't. What I did was: I copied the whole drive via: cd / tar cf - bin | ( cd /mnt/freebsd ; tar xvf) tar cf - boot | ( cd /mnt/freebsd ; tar xvf) ... Until know (I rebooted the new drive with the copied system) no errors occured except one that the file modes/permissions of directories /tmp and /var/tmp seemed to have changed because e.g. kde could not start anymore saying that it has no permissions to use tmp. So thanx again for helping and answering Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
