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			| vzdump -exclude-path  [message #50604] | Fri, 20 September 2013 11:16  |  
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					|  votsalo Messages: 26
 Registered: December 2011
 Location: Greece
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	| When I used the -exclude-path option with vzdump to exclude a directory that uses a lot of space, I noticed that the excluded directory is copied in the intermediate .tmp dir where vzdump does a temporary rsync and is only dropped later when creating the archive.  So it ends up copying a lot of unwanted files, which takes time and space.  In my case, the files I wanted to exclude are in the order of 100GB while the final archive is only 300MB. 
 This is what I tried to use:  vzdump -exclude-path '/var/opt/.+'
 
 As a workaround, I could stop the container and do the tar myself.
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