OS X / Unix Matt | 26 May 2007 11:25 am
Excluding files and directories from a tar backup
I’m making a backup of a clients site right now and noticed that they have a directory of mp3’s that’s huge. I don’t need this directory in the backup. In the tar manual I see that the switch —exclude allows me to exclude some files from my backup.
tar zcvf google-website.tgz —exclude “htdocs/mp3s/*” htdocs
This example assumes that I’m in the directory one level up from the one I want to tar up. Specifying full paths to the archive, the exclusion and the htdocs directory would work too.
