Centos – Tar directory gives me error, won’t let me tar!

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[root@centosvm01 /]# tar –create –exclude="storage/thumbs/" –file="storagebackup.tar" storage/
tar: storagebackup.tar: Wrote only 8192 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I am trying to backup the entire /storage directory but exclude /storage/thumbs/

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Just a guess: is your disk full?

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tar -C changes directory

tar -C /home/user1/ -cvzf dir1.tar.gz dir1

btw, handy one for keeping track of changing directories... use pushd and popd.

pushd .
cd /home/user1
tar cvfz dir1.tar.gz
popd

Centos – How to SCP entire directory but exclude a directory

Use rsync: rsync -av --exclude thumbs /storage dest

Rsync uses secure copy.

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