Problem with tar 1.13: --exclude-file does not work

[Markus Ungermann]

Hi,

i use tar 1.12 on a Linux-Server and make the Backups with it to a
DAT-Streamer.
On another Server with Debian Potato i have an external DAT-Sreamer and
tar 1.13.

With tar 1.12 i use an exclude file, looking like this:
mnt/sda2/home/*/no_backup

I don´t want to archive the no_backup directory for every user; with tar
1.12 it´s works fine.
But with 1.13 it doesn´t works, tar archives the no_backup directory to
the tape.
I tried some other methods like "...", ´...´ , but it didn´t work.

I MUST exclude only these directories and i can´t use the wildcard (
only writing no_backup in the exclude file).
Can you help me, please?
I want to use the original Debian potato tar, and not a self-compiled
1.12 tar.

And one other Question:
At the Online-Manual in the Section "Problems with Using the exclude
Options" (tar_96.html) you write in the example:
$ tar -c -f archive.tar -X ´*/tmp*´ directory

I think it´s wrong: The -X Option is for --exclude-from, i must write a
filename, or?
The example doesn´t work ....


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