Tar - it won't exclude files, what am I doing wrong?
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From: Justin C on 7 Jul 2010 04:45 I have a file /var/local/backup_excludes that lists directories that contain files which I do not want to backup, the contents look like this: home/justin/tmp/tmp_img_dir/* home/justin/.mozilla/*/Cache/* home/ali/Cookies/* And to backup I'm using the following: tar --exclude-from=/var/local/backup_excludes -cf $tape home/ 2>> $logpath The script that runs the backup does a "cd /" before it starts, so all paths should be relative. I've been banging my head against this for a while now and still can't solve it. I did have the --exclude-from... part at the end of the line but found somewhere on the web that that was incorrect. And formerly I didn't have the /* at the end of the paths either, but that didn't work for me either. This is a real PITA because I've done this in the past and had it working, but I can't figure out now how! Thank you for any help you can give with this. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea.
From: Dave Farrance on 7 Jul 2010 09:51 Justin C <justin.1007(a)purestblue.com> wrote: >I have a file /var/local/backup_excludes that lists directories that >contain files which I do not want to backup, the contents look like >this: > >home/justin/tmp/tmp_img_dir/* >home/justin/.mozilla/*/Cache/* >home/ali/Cookies/* /home ...
From: Dave Farrance on 7 Jul 2010 09:54 Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote: >Justin C <justin.1007(a)purestblue.com> wrote: > >>I have a file /var/local/backup_excludes that lists directories that >>contain files which I do not want to backup, the contents look like >>this: >> >>home/justin/tmp/tmp_img_dir/* >>home/justin/.mozilla/*/Cache/* >>home/ali/Cookies/* > >/home ... or depending on how it was created, it might contain ./home... so use: */home ...
From: Justin C on 7 Jul 2010 11:36 On 2010-07-07, Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote: > Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote: > >>Justin C <justin.1007(a)purestblue.com> wrote: >> >>>I have a file /var/local/backup_excludes that lists directories that >>>contain files which I do not want to backup, the contents look like >>>this: >>> >>>home/justin/tmp/tmp_img_dir/* >>>home/justin/.mozilla/*/Cache/* >>>home/ali/Cookies/* >> >>/home ... > > or depending on how it was created, it might contain ./home... so use: > > */home ... Ah! OK. I will give that a try. cron will run it over-night and I'll see how it got on tomorrow morning. Looking again at what I'm backing up, I might do a "cd /home" first and then backup "*" rather than "cd /" and backing up "home", I can then change the paths in the exclude file to */justin/tmp_img_dir/* or similar. I think that is more tidy. Thank you for your reply, I'll let you know how I get on tomorrow. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea.
From: Big and Blue on 7 Jul 2010 16:42
On 07/07/10 16:36, Justin C wrote: > > > Ah! OK. I will give that a try. cron will run it over-night and I'll see > how it got on tomorrow morning. A strange (to me) debugging tactic. Why not create a much cut-down version that covers an example of what you wish to do and run that now? In a few minutes. So that when the cron job runs overnight you can have a high expectation that now it *will* do what you require. -- Just because I've written it doesn't mean that either you or I have to believe it. |