Re: a bit OT
| From: | Carroll Barrett | Date: | Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:01:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: a bit OT | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Boaz,
This works for me:
tar cv /path/to/backup --exclude /path/to/exclude | gzip >
/path/to/tarfile.tar.gz
Regards,
Carroll Barrett
-----Original Message-----
From: Boaz Yahav <berber@netvision.net.il>
To: PHP General (E-mail) <php-general@lists.php.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:45 PM
Subject: [PHP] a bit OT
>I'm using tar and gz to backup my file daily with a php script.
>
>I'm using :
>
>system("/usr/sbin/tar cvf - /user/berber/web |
/usr/local/bin/gzip >
>/user/berber/backup/Web." . $date . ".tar.gz");
>
>I want to exclude a sub directory from under /user/berber/web
and whatever i
>do
>I can't get the syntax correct.
>
>any ideas?
>
>Sincerely
>
> berber
>