[Sunhelp] gnu tar question

[dhansen at zebra.net]

 i've found it better to use -X file_list (--exclude-from FILE_LIST) with 
gnu tar. also, in some revisions --exclude and --exclude-from use
PATTERN instead of FILE. 
 i'm not near my machine to double check which tar i tend to use
for situations like that (i _think_ i use Sun's version), but i found
the 'include files from FILELIST' switch to be more reliable in the
situations that needed it in for some odd reason. ls -l'd the file/dir list
into a file after some filtering with tr, cut, grep -v and then run
sed against the file (if needed). then tar with the --include option.

 -david

> Question - while using GNU tar, is there a way to 
> --exclude a filename *anywhere*?  E.g., what I'm
> doing is backing up a couple of NetApp filers via
> GNU tar to a DLT drive, and I want to *exclude* the
> ..snapshot directories everywhere....
> 
> Bill
> 
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