We've content which amounts to 110GB on NAS. While running tar to copy this to use in a different location, by default the ".snapshot" directories were also getting included. The corresponding tar file size way exceeded the 100GB; had to interrupt the tar command when the size reached 140GB.
Solaris 10.
Can we exclude these directories? What are the implications?
Regards,
Van
I thought this would be simple, but it took a while to come up with a (messy) solution:
cd tarsource_dir
find ./.snapshot > exclude-files
tar cvfX /tmp/blob.tar ./exclude-file .
...
./.snapshot excluded
...
Hope this at least gives some ideas!