Re: tar & samba file systems

["Adam T. Bowen" <adamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

      I have had similar behaviour from tar before when using -l (aka 
--one-file-system).  It was because I was doing something like:

      tar -lcvf local_files.tar *

in /.  The * of course is expanded to all the filenames in the directory 
causing the command to look like:

      tar -lcvf local_files.tar etc bin boot home ...

So even though, say, home is mounted on another partition to /, I am 
stating the name of home on the command line and so it is included.  Any 
 other non-local file systems encountered whilst traversing the 
directories given will not be followed of course.  Anyway, the solution 
is to do:

      tar -lcvf local_files.tar .

or just name the directories you want.

Hope that helps.

Adam

Callahan, Tom wrote:
> Or you can use --exclude to specify directories/files not to be backed
> up....
>
> Tom Callahan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jason
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:45 AM
> To: Luca Ferrari
> Cc: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: tar & samba file systems
>
> --one-file-system and then just specify the mounts that you want to backup.
> ala /boot / /home
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