tar: --exclude doesn't work on Solaris 9

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
        please keep the Cc: address@hidden when replying so that
the tar experts can help you.  I'm not an expert.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:19:28PM -0800, Tyler Harwood wrote:
> > What's the problem with exclude option?
> 
> It doesn't work. It doesn't exclude the directories
> and files I want. I tried the same kinds of commands
> on a Linux computer and it works perfectly, just as I
> expected, but the exclude option doesn't work on our
> Solaris 9 server (on none of the tar binaries, even
> the one I just built) :-\

You wrote me that you plan to try 1.13.25.
If that doesn't work, please submit a concrete example of the
command which fails on Solaris.  Try to reduce it to something
small so that eg. possible problems with mountpoints are not
intervening there.

Perhaps someone will help you to fix the problem.

> I think we might be trying a different backup solution
> though, involving rsync, and then having a Linux
> workstation make the backup tar. 
> 
> Tyler Harwood

Stepan Kasal