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From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar / ft command help
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 15:45:09 -0700
Organization: University of California, Davis
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CC: root@brians-domain.com
Leslie Mikesell wrote:
>
> In article <4ss83o$dn@brians-pc.brians-domain.com>,
> Brian Bayorgeon <root@brians-domain.com> wrote:
> >
> >when I issue the [tar cvzf - / | ft "full backup"] command, will
> >tar recurse into the other file systems such as /var and /usr??
>
> Yes, but if you prefer to store each file system separately, GNUtar
> has the --one-file-system option to keep it from crossing mount points.
>
> Les Mikesell
> les@mcs.com
Look at the man page for tar. There is a X switch that will allow you
to exclude files if you don't want them. Just have a file which
includes
the names of the directories you want excluded (I think for your case
you would have two lines with usr and var on them, no /'s). I have used
this in the past. Works quite well.
--
- Mike
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