Backup CPIO or TAR

[Bob Fraser]

I want to backup a directory using a
command such as;

tar -cvf - .|/usr/contrib/bin/gzip - >/BU_Drive/APPS/APPS_backup.tar.gz

The problem I am having is that I have NFS mounts underneath I do not want to include.

I cannot find an option for tar not to include a nfs mounts like cpio -xdev

Any suggestions?

[Muthukumar_5]

You can use find -xdev and direct files to tar operation.

hth.

[Muthukumar_5 · Accepted solution]

Try as,

cd /; find . -xdev | xargs tar -cvf - | gzip - > /BU_Drive/APPS/APPS_backup.tar.gz

hth.

[Hakan Aribas]

For example:
tar cvfX backup.tar NFSmounts.txt /export/home

NFSmounts.txt --> The files in this text file will not be added backup.tar

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi,

You can use -xdev with find to skip all the NFS file systms.

find . -xdev | xargs tar -cvf - | gzip - | /BU_Drive/APPS/APPS_backup.tar.gz

-Arun

[Muthukumar_5]

Hakan,

X (Exclude) option is not available in hp-ux tar (I think). I hope you have tested in Linux?

hth.

[Bob Fraser]

The last comment was perfect!