Hi, All, I tried to back up my home directory today for the first time in a month or so (I back it up to zip drvie which was dead; I got a new one yesterday). I used the same command which I always do:
tar -cPvzf /zip/cdj.tgz --exclude-from=.tar_exclude . .tar_exclude is a short file: .netscape/* download/* Office51/* This time it didn't exclude the files. I tried specifying patterns on the command line but this didn't work either. I checked the timestamp on /bin/tar and it says Sep 14, so it must have been updated since my last backup. Is this a known bug, or am I doing something wrong now? -Chris -- |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Christopher D. Judd, Ph.D. | | NYS Dept. of Health [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Wadsworth Center - ESP | | P.O. Box 509 518 486-7829 | | Albany, NY 12201-0509 | |------------------------------------------------------------------------|