At Thu, 7 Jan 2010 07:06:11 -0800 (PST) CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi
>
> I have problem in tar command
>
> Can you help?
>
> tar -cv --exclude /var/named/chroot/proc/* -zf backup.tar.gz /var/named
>
> /var/named/chroot/proc/net/route
> /var/named/chroot/proc/net/udp
> /var/named/chroot/proc/net/tcp
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
"It is almost *always* wrong to pass an unquoted wildcard to tar."
Try this:
tar -cv --exclude '/var/named/chroot/proc/*' -zf backup.tar.gz /var/named
Although I suspect that:
tar -cv --exclude /var/named/chroot/proc -zf backup.tar.gz /var/named
will also work.
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