Example: exclude directories /home,/net, and /xfn from being included in the flash
archive.

find / \( -name home -o -name net -o -name xfn \) -prune -o -print > /tmp/flar_files

Note: you may want to remove the line containing "/" from /tmp/flar_files. Otherwise,
you will receive an error.

Creating the archive...
cpio: Error with lstat() of "", errno 2, No such file or directory

grep -v "^/$" /tmp/flar_list > /tmp/flar_list.tmp
mv /tmp/flar_list.tmp /tmp/flar_list

flarcreate -n "Flash archive" -a "brandonhutchinson@hotmail.com" -f /tmp/flar_files -F
-c -S /tmp/archive.flar



Sun's Flash archiving in Solaris is a great way to clone systems or take OS backups.
It ties nicely into JumpStart too. However, the basic flarcreate(1M) command (prior to
Solaris 9 Update 2) is somewhat limited; notably, it won't let you exclude multiple
files/dirs from the archive because the script only processes one -x argument (bugid
4501772). There are ways around this.

* Use find(1) to create an exclusive list of the files you want in the archive.
* flarcreate uses /etc/mnttab(4) as the default list of filesystems to
	* include. Copy and edit the flarcreate script and change the mnttab reference
	* to mnttab.flar. Then copy /etc/mnttab to /etc/mnttab.flar and edit the
	* latter, removing any filesystems you don't want. (This only works for
	* complete filesystems, not individual files or directories.) (See Info Doc
	* #46325.)
* Recommended: Install patch 109318-34 for Solaris 8, or equivalent
	* (misleadingly labelled as a suninstall patch). This provides a new
	* version of flarcreate that understands multiple excludes and even
	* includes (via the new -y option; reading the code, this appears to add
	* files in addition to the current or default list). Note that the
	* extended options aren't yet documented in the man page. This patch can
	* also be applied to a JumpStart base image using the -R option to
	* patchadd(1M).