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Ask HN: Archive a large directory while excluding a subdirectory

1 pointsby 41209over 3 years ago
Hi all<p>I want to back up my Unity project while excluding the Library folder ( Unity essentially copies all of your assets into it).<p>Right now I just use 7Zip , but this doesn&#x27;t allow me to exclude sub directories I don&#x27;t need.<p>Late last night I actually thought of programming something in Python to do this, I would love to have a little quirky GUI here to schedule these archive backups.

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uhfraidover 3 years ago
GNU tar has an exclude option for this<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;tar&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;exclude.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;tar&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;exclude.ht...</a>