On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:46:40PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >And I would only be able to backup ALL hda or ALL hdb, but not just
> >/usr/bin without getting into GNUTAR exclusions and such...maybe I'm
> >wrong...
>
> You're wrong :-).
>
> If you put a directory name in your disklist (instead of something like
> "hdb" or "/dev/hdb"), that just gets passed to GNU tar as is, so it's
> pretty easy to just do a subdirectory.
>
> Now the problem is if you also list the top level mount point as well.
> That would cause it and the subdirectory to both be dumped. That's where
> you would need an exclusion to ignore the subdirectory when doing the
> whole partition.
>
> But if you don't have very many subdirectories and list each one by
> itself and never mention the top level, it will work just fine.
But it will skip ordinary files at the top level. Also, any
directories created there without remembering to change the
backup scheme.
For that coverage, you have to go back to listing the root directory
and excluding the individually backed-up subdirs.
jon
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