Extract data that exclude some directories using tar command

[ajk_5]

Dear all,

I want to use tar extracting data from tape that exclude some directories. Could you tell me how I can do it?
Thanks very much.

Best Regards
Ajk

[V.Tamilvanan]

Hi,
There is no option in tar to exclude selected directories.
You can do it on the other way by selecting whatever the directories to be extracted.
You first create a list of files archived and extract the directories whatever u required from the list.

1. #tar -tvf /dev/rmt/1m >logfile

2.#tar -xvf /dev/rmt/1m /usr1 /usr2


HTH

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

believe you can use pax,

# pax -pe -rvf /tarfile.tar -s '/^\///' /dir1 /dir2

Look at the man page of pax.

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[Mad_1]

Try the tar download from the "Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX" from below link.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

you can do this using GNU tar, look at the URL given by Mad

[Chris Vail]

There's no way to do this using tar exactly. What you can do is extract the filenames into a text file, then edit the text file and delete out the files you don't want. Then you can use that text file as an argument to another tar command:
tar tvf /dev/rmt/0>/tmp/tarnames
vi /tmp/tarnames
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 `cat /tmp/tarnames`

Other tar variants can do this as you want it to: Backup Edge, a 3rd party product, is one of them.


Chris