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Compress dirs and files recursively but exclude self

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 14:46 
tar -zcvf /home/everything_whole_server.tar.gz /home --exclude="/home/everything_whole_server.tar.gz"

You can remove -v to turn output off.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 15:15.

And got "Error exit delayed from previous errors". What does it mean? Should I try again or just one file could not be archived?

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