On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:05:54AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> 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.
> 

   man gnutar


By use of appropriate options for each program,
gnutar and dump backup the same set of files.

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