>Ok, say I want to back up some directories in /usr and I wanted to >exclude the directories below. Is the format that I used below >appropriate to exclude the directories and their subdirectories below? >...
Not quite. What you have will exclude the contents of the directories but not the directory itself. In other words, if you did a restore you would get back the directories but they would be empty, which might actually be what you want. But if you want to the exclude the directory, too, you need to double up each entry: ./X11R6 ./X11R6/* ./bin ./bin/* ./compat ./compat/* I can never figure this stuff out in my head, so use this test script: ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtartest-exclude John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
