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Re: Does the gnutar method exclude mount points ?

2005-05-13 10:50:30
Subject: Re: Does the gnutar method exclude mount points ?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Guy Dallaire <clepeterd AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:35:20 -0400 (EDT) 
On Fri, 13 May 2005 at 10:05am, 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 ?

Yes -- amanda runs tar with the "--one-file-system" flag.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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