tar and --exclude

[Walter Mitty]

Am running ubuntu breezy updated to 2.6.12-10-686

I was trying to backup my system following the instructions here:

[url]http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087[/url]

This might sound stupid, but the --exclude options aren't working. Any
ideas?

(ps, note to Sinner : got the 6110. Took a while to get the scanner
working : but all is hunky dory now. A tad on the large side, good
quality and solidly built).

[jim]

> I was trying to backup my system following the instructions here:
>
>

Here is an example that worked for me
jim@grayhane:~$ tar cjvpf jimbk.tar.bz2 --exclude=tutorial.html practice/

the target directory you wish to use is the last thing listed.

Here is a great tutorial on the subject
[url]http://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/tar_2.html[/url]