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[SOLVED] bash command has invalid option

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http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hi, I'm trying to run a command from an ubuntu howto page, but there's something wrong with it that i dont understand? Can you point it out please? Thanks root@nnjond-desktop:/# tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz -–exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev / tar: invalid option -- Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. root@nnjond-desktop:/# (HowTos)

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Submitted by xskl on 07/17/2010 – Made popular on 07/17/2010

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I am trying to create a tar backup script.

I use a variant of the simple script below from the Community Ubuntu Documentation described

tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev /

I used it again on Ubuntu 12.04 and I saw some files from the /run being skipped by the script.

I want to restore a complete tar backup of Ubuntu 12.04 with all my customizations, documents, installed software, etc. to a different machine.

Bash out of control ? 2 years 44 weeks ago

Hi,

I created a system restore file.

code:

tar cvpzf sysrestor.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sysrestor.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys /

And hav tried out:

ctl alt F4

root@ desktop:# tar -cxvpfz sysrestor.tgz /

I have two hard drives--a system drive and a data drive. The path to the data drive is /storage. Following this post, I went to the root of my filesytem and executed the following command:

tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys --exclude=/storage /

Note that I excluded the data drive (--exclude=/storage) from the backup.

Linux backup using tar 14 weeks 3 hours ago

Im new to linux backup. Im thinking of full system backup of my linux server using tar. I came up with the following code:

tar -zcvpf /archive/fullbackup.tar.gz --exclude=/archive --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys --exclude=/tmp /

and if in need of any hardware problem, restore it with

cd / tar -zxpvf fullbackup.tar.gz

But does my ab

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Hi,

One of the system that I have has lot of disk errors. To be safe, I want to backup the system in case of disaster. To backup the system, I did this tar command but it's also doing the NFS mount on the system. Please advice, how to exclude all the NFS mount point, and only tar the system itself.

I'm having trouble understanding the exclude option in tar. From some web sites, it seems one is able to exclude several strings by enclosing them in curly brackets.

Everything I read says that to exclude .svn and .htaccess and other hidden files when creating a tar archive, use the --exclude=".*" pattern.

When I try, I get an empty archive. When I leave out the --exclude long option everything gets archived.

Here's the full command I'm using: tar -czvf ../_migrate/archive_2012-05-07.tgz --exclude=".*" ./*