oops.. that should be /tmp/exclude. sorry.
I found the "*" was not needed when using -T option.
So I didn't attempt it on the -X option.
Lemme try... no ..didn't work... :(
I will attach the full script
Anita Lewis wrote:
> > Is it possible to tar backup everything in /home except
> > /home/httpd/html/linux-sxs?
> > tar cvzfp /home/backup/linux.backup.tgz -T /tmp/filelist -X /tmp/xclude
> > file /tmp/filelist:
> > /home/httpd/html/linux-sxs/
> I'm glad you asked this, because I couldn't get it to work a while back and
> gave up. I tried again this morning and found that I need to do this with
> the exclude file:
> /home/httpd/html/linux-sxs/*
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#!/bin/bash
XCLUDE=/tmp/xclude
FLIST=/tmp/filelist
TGT=/home/samba/public/linux
SRC=/home/backup/config.tar.gz
# individual files
ls -1 /etc/rc.d/rc.* > $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/*.conf >> $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/crontab >> $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/fstab >> $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/hosts* >> $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/services >> $FLIST
ls -1a /etc/.issue >> $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/*tab >> $FLIST
ls -1 /boot/grub/menu.lst >> $FLIST
ls -1 /usr/sbin/modemd >> $FLIST
ls -1 /usr/src/linux/.config >> $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/*rc >> $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/ftp* >> $FLIST
ls -1 /home/backup/backup >> $FLIST
ls -1 /home/backup/partition >> $FLIST
ls -1 /etc/aliases >> $FLIST
# folders
echo "/etc/X11/xinit/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/htdig/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/pureftpd/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/mail/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/cron.d/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/ppp/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/pam.d/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/logrotate.d/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/logcheck/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/inet.d/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/rc.d/init.d/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/modules/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/samba.d/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/ssh/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/httpd/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/portsentry/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/sysconfig/daemons/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/" >> $FLIST
echo "/var/named/" >> $FLIST
echo "/home/ipcheck/" >> $FLIST
echo "/home/seti/" >> $FLIST
echo "/home/scripts/" >> $FLIST
echo "/home/commo/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/news/" >> $FLIST
echo "/var/geektools/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/config.d/shells/" >> $FLIST
echo "/home/httpd/html/" >> $FLIST
echo "/etc/squid/" >> $FLIST
# exclude
echo "/home/httpd/html/linux-sxs/*" > $XCLUDE
tar czvfp $SRC -T ${FLIST} -X $XCLUDE
cp $SRC $TGT
rm $FLIST
