Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-17 Thread Charles Polisher
Rainer Traut wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia: > > Rainer Traut wrote: > >> Hi List, > >> > >> hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. > >> > >> My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: > >> > >> 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz > >> /etc /root

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:56:58 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 03/15/2011 10:25 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > ... > > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > > Add -P to include leading / You really don't want to do that! Makes restoring to an alternitive location difficult. > > Mo

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 15.03.2011 10:37, schrieb Luigi Rosa: >> >> It's a matter of personal taste, but I find more useful the -X (or >> - --exclude-from) option > > Yes, personal taste, but in crontab confusing not seeing the excludes > and besides that it has t

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/15/11 4:25 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi List, > > hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. > > My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: > > 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz > /etc /root /home&& touch /tmp/state_backup-backup > > This

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 15.03.2011 12:37, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. >> >> My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: >> >> 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backu

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 15.03.2011 10:37, schrieb Luigi Rosa: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rainer Traut said the following on 15/03/11 10:25: > >> This always sends me an unwanted email with: >> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > > Redirect the stdout/stderr to some file: > > tar cvz

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi List, > > hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. > > My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: > > 20 23 * * *     tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz > /etc /root /home && touch /tmp/state_backup-ba

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mogens Kjaer said the following on 15/03/11 10:56: >> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > Add -P to include leading / ...and be VERY CAREFUL when you unpack that tar ;) Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ Luke: I don't believe it.

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 03/15/2011 10:25 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: ... > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Add -P to include leading / Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, m...@lemo.dk http://www.lemo.dk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rainer Traut said the following on 15/03/11 10:25: > This always sends me an unwanted email with: > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Redirect the stdout/stderr to some file: tar cvzf /mnt/mybackup.tgz /foo /bar > /var/log/backup 2> /var/l

[CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi List, hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz /etc /root /home && touch /tmp/state_backup-backup This always sends me an unwanted email with: tar: Removing