How to Tell tar to not to copy few dir's

[Basheer_2]

I have a dir

/APPDIR

under this dir there are many sub dir's and files goes down to 3 or 4 levels of dirs and files. Some of log dirs are LOGDIR ERRLOG TRLOG SCANLOG.
I don't want these dirs and files in them. How can I do this using tar.

I tried cpio and it works fine.

find /APPDIR -name "*" -print > temp1

egrep -v "/APPDIR/LOGDIR|/APPDIR/ERRLOG|/APPDIR/TRLOG|/APPDIR/SCANLOG" temp1 > cpio.lst

cat cpio.lst | cpio -ocBv > bakup.022103.cpio

[Pete Randall]

How about this:


tar cvf /dev/rmt/0m `cat cpio.lst`



Pete

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Basheer,

Instead of plain old tar for this backup, you should use fbackup.
You can include (-i) whatever paths you wish or exclude (-e) paths.
Or you could define a graph file to include OR exclude whatever you wish & just reference it.
Has the extra added benefit that it can handle +2Gb files whereas tar cannot.
See man fbackup for further details.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Chris Vail]

If any of the files are larger than 2GB, you'll have to use Gnu Tar. Elsewise, you can do it with:
for FILE in `find . -type d|grep -v DIR1|grep -v DIR2`
do
tar cvfr /tarfile $FILE
done

Shell scripting from the prompt is an art form and bloodsport.....



Chris

[Frank Slootweg]

Have a look at pax(1).

pax is a mix and match of cpio and tar. For example for your case, you can tell it to write in tar *format*, but still take the list of filenames from *standard input*, i.e. like cpio.

A simple *demonstration*:

find . | pax -w -d | tar tvf - 2>&1 | more

I.e. this shows that pax can read the filenames from standard input and writes in tar format (otherwise the "tar tvf -" would fail).

Note that "-d" is needed in order to archive directories, *not* their content.