On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 12:38 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >> From the howto: http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap29sec305.html
> >>
> >> I got some ideas to help me to tar up the OS. I had already been
> >> shown how to wrap it into SSH to deposit the tar file on another
> >> system, so I tried the following:
> >>
> >> tar cpvzf - -C / --exclude home --exclude media --exclude mnt
> >> --exclude proc --exclude */lost+found | ssh root@xxxxxxxx
> >> "cat>backup-060907.tgz"
> >>
> >> But, whereas the howto is talking about --exclude dealing with files,
> >> the Centos Man on tar is saying that it applies to files.
> >>
> >>
> >> So what is wrong? I know the SSH stuff is correct as when I put in
> >> something like ls I get a file with result of the ls. Also I had
> >> done this without the excludes and of course it died slowing when it
> >> got to /media/cdrom :(
> >
> > I recall that before USB2, when tape backup made sense, I used an
> > "exclude file" rather than doing it on the command line. I also
> > remember that "/"s most definitely affect the outcome. I believe that
> > if you'll look at the info pages (not man) for tar, you'll find a few
> > examples buried in the document that will make the tar part of your
> > puzzle crystal clear.
> >
> At the very end of info tar, it talks a LITTLE bit about -- exclude PATTERN.
>
> I guess you have to know what pattern means. So should I be using
> entries like:
>
> --exclude '/home' ?
I've always thought it was a lot more straightforward to make separate
archives of each filesystem you want by cd'ing to the mount point
and doing a 'tar --one-file-system -cvf /some/path/filesystem.tar .
than to do it in one run trying to exclude any possible mount points
you don't want.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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