tar --exclude works with Mandrake but not potato
Hello, all,
Some may remember my post about this a short while back. My apologies for
the redundancy, and for the posts to 2 different lists if that's
inappropriate. I still don't have a resolution to my situation and am
curious where to go from here.
My potato server (ftp/www/mail.mattyt.net) is running potato in one big
partition (except for /home/ftp/pub). The easiest way for me to do
periodic backups is to create one big tarball of the whole installation.
The way I always did this before was to log in as root, cd to /, and
execute a command such as this:
# tar --same-owner -czpvf /home/ftp/pub/backups/main.tgz --exclude=proc/*
--exclude=tmp/* --exclude=home/ftp/pub/* *
This would create a tarball in my ftp space, without including any of the
dynamic/garbage info in /proc or in /tmp. It also wouldn't include all
the various files in /home/ftp/pub, especially the newly created tarball
image. It *would*, however, include the empty directories themselves.
My problem is that the --exclude command no longer works the way it used
to. This is my current version of tar:
doma:/# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17
Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
When I used to use --exclude, it would include the /proc, /tmp, etc.
directories, but not their contents. This meant that if my system crashed
(or whatever), restoring was a fairly trivial process. Now, however, when
I issue the above mentioned lengthy tar command, it goes ahead and
includes all the files in the directories I have told it to exclude.
The most interesting part of all this, to me at least, is that the same
version of tar under Linux Mandrake 7.1:
[root@igra /]# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17
Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
...still operates the way I remember it. I use Mandrake for my desktop
machine as it auto-configures lots of stuff like my VooDoo 2 card and also
has a much more complete KDE installation. I use Debian as my server
because it is much easier to use dselect to install a lean server with
only the packages I need (no X, etc.), plus I'm sure the default security
is better under Debian. I *really* don't want to use Mandrake for my
server, especially for the want of one argument for one program.
The short version: tar --exclude v1.13.17 under Mandrake 7.1 works the
way it always has, tar --exclude v1.13.17 under potato doesn't.
I'm kind of pulling out my hair here, guys (especially since I start a new
Network Admin position next week). Any help you can give to resolve this
somewhat bizarre issue would be MUCH appreciated.
Thanks :)
Cheers.........................
Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net
mattyt@oz.net http://www.oz.net/~mattyt
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