Mythical Proportions wrote: > 2 GNOME questions for you... > 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$ > you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't > appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls the gnome > menu (both per user and globally)? Search the list archives for this one because it's been answered so many times before. Look for the responses from Havoc. > 3) I want to start tarring my home folders for backup. I know you can > tell tar to exclude certain files/folders, but I can't seem to get the > syntax write based on the man and --help stuff. I want to exclude one > folder within /home/user1 that has music files. > So... #: tar -cvz archive.tar /home/user1 > doesn't cut it. Anyone have any advice? First of all, your tar command needs to be fixed. Try this: tar cvzf archive.tar.gz /home/user1 As for the folder exclusion you use either --exclude=PATTERN or --exclude-from=FILE. IMO, the easy way to do what you want is to use an exclude file and create a list of all the things you don't want in the archive. For example: You want to backup everything except the mp3 files you have in ~/music. Create a file /home/user1/exclude which only contains this line -- music -- Then run this command: tar cvzf archive.tar.gz /home/user1 --exclude-from=/home/user1/exclude That should take care of it. There are other ways to solve this problem, but having an exclude file is great because you can just add lines to it as needed and keep the tar command line simple. Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
