[SOLVED] tar --exclude problem

windstory · 12-04-2009, 12:58 PM

My box is centos 5.3 x86.
I want to back up my data by incremental tar method, so searched some documents at google.

I've tried this command, but "--exclude" option does not work.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
checkdate=`LC_TIME=en date | awk '{print $1}'`

BACKUP_DIR=/_backup
html_SOURCE=/var/www/html/server1
dmdata_SOURCE=/var/www/html/server1/data

tar -g ${BACKUP_DIR}/html_fullincre_bak.list -czvpf ${BACKUP_DIR}/html_full_bak_${DATE}.tgz -C / ./${html_SOURCE} --exclude ${html_SOURCE}/data

Please let me know what is wrong.
Any comment would be appreciated.

darenw · 12-04-2009, 01:14 PM

I think --exclude wants a filename (or pattern) not just a directory. If ${html_SOURCE}/data is a directory, make it --exclude ${html_SOURCE}/data/* and see if that works.

windstory · 12-04-2009, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darenw

I think --exclude wants a filename (or pattern) not just a directory. If ${html_SOURCE}/data is a directory, make it --exclude ${html_SOURCE}/data/* and see if that works.

darenw/
Thank you for your knidness.

But your advise does not work.

I've solved this problem with this command.

Code:

tar -g ${BACKUP_DIR}/html_fullincre_bak.list -czvpf ${BACKUP_DIR}/html_full_bak_${DATE}.tgz -C / ${html_SOURCE} --exclude ${html_SOURCE}/data