On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:20:04PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Simon Young wrote:
> 
> > The question is, should I be refering to paths rather than devices when
> > using tar? Like this:
> > 
> > henry   /       root-tar
> > henry   /usr    user-tar
> > 
> 
> Yes.  You may even use path for if you use dump instead of tar.  Amanda 
> will make then necessary conversion for you.
> 
> > ...and have an exclude file for, say, the root filesystem which ignores
> > all the mount points covered by the other DLEs?
> 
> No, you don't need that. GNUTAR is run with the option 
> '--one-file-system' that avoids crossing mount points.

Excellent! Thanks very much :-)

Simon