[plug] IDE-Tape Drive - Solved

[Andrew Furey]

> > I then began to use tar, but of course if you want
> > to exclude files or directories, it doesn't
actually
> > work in any way.

I don't know if it's any help, but I've never gotten
the --exclude= option to work either. However, last I
remember (which was a few months ago), --exclude-from=
(-X) _did_ work.

It does mean that you need an extra file lying around,
but you can always exclude it - or if you're really
sneaky, create in on the fly in the script you use,
then delete it when you're finished :)

HTH
Andrew

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