Re: tar question
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:50:36AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:08:35PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| > | causing recursion?
| >
| > tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]*
| >
| > tar acts recursively automatically, but it is bad to try and include
| > the directory you are writing the tar file to (it tries to include it,
| > and it bombs out).
|
| Not sure what you mean with bombs out.
It did once. Incomplete read or file changed while reading or some
such error.
| For me it works, tar is clever enough
| to excluding such a recursive file but behaves correctly otherwise, like:
I can't reproduce it right now, it's working at the moment.
-D
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