On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:05:54AM -0400, Guy Dallaire enlightened us:
> If I backup the root (/) disk with the DUMP program, I know it will
> not backup mounted file systems under /.
>
> But if I use GNUTAR ? Is it intelligent enough to skip mounted file systems ?
>
> Otherwise, I don't see how I could backup a root file system with
> gnutar without having to exclude all mounted file systems directories.
>
Yes, tar is called with the --one-file-system option, so it will skip
mounted file systems.
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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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