Your directive should have an entry for each directory to exclude, e.g.

<< /tmp >>
     +skip: .

Look at the Unix Standard Directive for more examples.

Greetings,
Ingo


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:13:25 -0600, Ron Short <short AT SGI DOT COM> wrote:

>What is the syntax for excluding certain directories from a backup?
>
>What to exclude the following from the backup of "/"
>
>/tmp
>/proc
>/var/tmp
>/var/run
>/var/crash
>/mnt
>
>Believe need to add +skip: /tmp, etc lines to a directive
>
>thanks
>
>
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