Oliver Fuchs wrote:
Hi, I want to tar the whole / tree but want to exclude the /dev directory. In the man pages I only found how to exclude single files. Is there a chance to exclude a whole directory using the tar command? Oliver
This should be what you need: tar -czf root_bak-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz / --exclude=/dev/* -Roberto
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