On Friday 24 January 2003 06:00, Simon Young wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm using tar for backup, but my DLEs refer to device names. For
>example,
>
>henry   /dev/sda1       root-tar
>henry   /dev/sda2       user-tar
>
>I'm also trying to use exclude lists, but these don't seem to be
> working as I would expect them to (it looks like they're being
> ignored).
>
>The question is, should I be refering to paths rather than devices
> when using tar? Like this:
>
Somewhat...
>henry   /       root-tar
>henry   /usr    user-tar

Your first line will also cover the second one, and on todays 
systems, either will likely generate a level 0 bigger than the 
tape. I don't do /, but each subdir, and /usr is further broken 
down into /usr/bin, /usr/etc, /usr/local and so on entries.
Here, /usr/src and /usr/dlds can make a tape full each by themselves 
with /usr/music bringing up the next biggest file. YMMV of course.

>...and have an exclude file for, say, the root filesystem which
> ignores all the mount points covered by the other DLEs?

The format of the exclude files entries is in relative format, as in 
"./entry".  So if you had an entry that was ./etc, it would skip 
all the etc dirs it runs into in that dle.

Or at least thats how I had it setup.  I'm not using the excludes 
now as I just don't put them into the disklist in the first place, 
so this info may be old.

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