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Originally Posted by euain
Is OSX tar the gnu version or some Apple-rolled version? If it's gnu (and maybe otherwise) - you can probably set up some excludes using the -X command.
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You can indeed use the -X switch. For instance, my backup script contains the following:
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tar rvfX ~/backups/home.tar ~/scripts/exclude_files.txt ~/Documents/* >> ~/scripts/backup.log
This is because I have a 1.2GB VPC file in ~/Documents/Virtual\ PC\ List/ that I don't want to back up. The exclude_files.txt contains the lines:
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# For some reason tar needs absolute paths here
/Users/matt/Documents/Virtual PC List/*