问题
I'm trying to take a tar of the '/home/store/' directory content.
tar cvf store.tar /home/store/
While doing so, I can see that the .snapshot directories are also getting included. My understanding is that snapshots are kind of backups. Can I skip this? If possible, how? Tried excluding a test directory using the below command ran from /home/store/
tar cvfX store.tar <(echo /home/store/test) /home/store/
But this is not excluding the test directory from the tar created.
Also, tried this
tar cvf store.tar /home/store/ --exclude-file=exclude.txt
Output:
a /home/store// 0K
a /home/store//.profile 1K
a /home/store//local.profile 1K
a /home/store//.vas_logon_server 1K
a /home/store//.vas_disauthcc_611400381 1K
a /home/store//.bash_history 7K
a /home/store//test/ 0K
a /home/store//test/1.txt 1K
a /home/store//test/migrate-perf3.txt 3958K
a /home/store//test.txt 1K
a /home/store//exclude.txt 1K
a /home/store//.snapshot/hourly.0/d2/dd/d5d/f82-1 59K
a /home/store//.snapshot/hourly.0/d2/dd/d5d/f83-1 58K
.....
tar: --exclude-file=exclude.txt: No such file or directory
/home/store/exclude.txt has the entry 'test'. Tried entering the following as well and got same error.
/home/store/test/
/home/store/test/1.txt
When I gave the full path to 'exclude.txt' like this
`tar cvf store.tar /home/store/ --exclude-file=/home/store/exclude.txt`
it's giving the below error
tar: can't change directories to --exclude-file=/home/store: No such file or directory
tar -h
Usage: tar {c|r|t|u|x}[BDeEFhilmnopPqTvw@[0-7]][bfk][X...] [blocksize] [tarfile] [size] [exclude-file...] {file | -I include-file | -C directory file}...
Thanks well in advance!
Van Peer
回答1:
Try to do so:
tar cvfX /var/tmp/src.tar /var/tmp/excl.txt /var/tmp/src/
Your exclude file should contain path:
/home/store//.snapshot
Best practice not to use full path of your tar dir, because in future you can overwite your /etc , when extract tar archive from /var/tmp, for example.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46035988/how-to-exclude-snapshots-while-running-tar-in-solaris