Thanks Dietmar, I had an older version of VZDUMP installed.  It's upgraded 
now.

Jim


--On Friday, December 07, 2007 4:56 AM +0100 Dietmar Maurer 
<dietmar@maurer-it.com> wrote:

> just use the --exclude-path option
>
> --exclude-path REGEX    exclude certain files/directories
>
> see the manual page for details (man vzdump)
>
> - Dietmar
>
>
>> Hi Dietmar and all...
>>
>> I have another suggestion for VZDUMP, if you don't mind.
>> Like most people, I have been using it for backup of VPSs.  I
>> have a number of VPSs that generate a large number of files
>> that don't need to be backed up.  One VPS, for example,
>> itself backs up databases by dumping their files.  Another
>> generates zone files periodically, and so on.
>>
>> Dumping these VPSs takes a lot of time and disk space.  The
>> reason I dump them is for their configuration, not for their data.
>>
>> If it was possible to exclude certain files, either by
>> location of by a name spec, or both, from the dump, that
>> would be fantastic.
>>
>> Just a thought, thank you for your hard work and contributions!
>>
>> Jim
>>