tar a complete drive excluding one directory

[Radek Kozlowski]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:24:45PM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want in FreeBSD RELEASE 5.2.1 tar a complete / system except one directory
> e.g. /mnt where I want to store the tar archive.
> In linux I do:
> 
> cd /
> tar cvzf /mnt/root.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz . --exclude=proc --exclude=mnt
> 
> Trying this in FreeBSD is not accepted because tar is still trying to tar
> the /mnt directory and the to be made archive.

Try:    
        
        # tar --exclude=proc --exclude=proc -cvzf \
                /mnt/root.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz .

-Radek