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Exclusions not working
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John Goerzen |
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Exclusions not working |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 07:58:30 -0600 |
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Good morning,
I wrote the below message to a mailing list for Amanda, a backup system that
uses GNU tar. However, further checking seems to indicate that the problem
is with GNU tar and not amanda.
A bit of extra information might be necessary for you. Amanda will run on a
machine and chdir to the relevant directory (/var in this case) before
running tar. Then it will run tar on ".", which means that all of the files
in the tarfile start with "./". Exclude patterns such as "./lib" work fine,
but anything with a wildcard, such as "./lib/lists-archives/archives/*" does
not. The patterns are specified in a file that is passed to GNU tar as an
--exclude-from file. I'm using tar 1.13.17.
Thankd!
-- John Goerzen
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Date: 02 Nov 2000 19:09:55 -0500
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Hi,
In my exclude rules for the /var filesystem backup, I have some lines
like this:
./spool/postfix/private/*
./lib/lists-archives/archives/*
Which, according to the docs, are the right way to do this (there are
sockets in those directories which cause gtar warnings.) However,
they are ignored! Also, lines like:
*/no-backup/*
are ignored -- even though this is basically EXACTLY like an example
in the book chapter. However:
no-backup
works. (Although it totally excludes the directory and not just its
contents). Also, likes like this work:
It seems that everything with asterisks is broken. Patterns without
wildcards, eg:
./lib
correctly exclude the directory.
I have GNU tar 1.13.17, Amanda 2.4.1p1, running on a set of Debian
GNU/Linux systems.
Thanks!
-- John
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