Help with tar

[MonMotha]

tar cvf backup.tar /home -exclude `find /home -name *Temporary*`

that should work.

--MonMotha

yuser wrote:
> I need help with some tar options..
> 
> I am trying to use tar to backup my /home directory into a file.
> I have the contents of some directories that I do not want backed up.
> Example..
> 
> Almost every user has a directory called
> some_user/ie/Temporary Internet Files and various others that I really
> do not to backup
> 
> I have tried the --exclude option but it seems to only take exact
> names, meaning that to exclude "yuser/ie/Temporary Internet Files"
> I could add this to the --exclude, but what about the other users
> Temporary Internet Files folders?  Is there a way to prevent achiving
> any directory that is named Temporary Internet Files without adding a
> specific exclude statement for every user that has that directory?
> What would really be nice is for tar to create the directory called
> Temporary Internet Files in the backup but not backup any of the files
> that are in that directory, I have not got that far yet.   
> 
> Maybe I should be using one of the backup script packages and not
> trying to use tar directly.
> 
> 
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