On 7 Oct 2002 at 2:56pm, Thom Paine wrote > How can I exclude /tmp and /var/tmp from being backed up? I would guess > that I wouldn't need the contents of those directories backed up every > night.
That depends. What are your disklist entries? Are you using dump or tar? What is the output of df? > Do I put an ! before the /tmp in disklist? > If you don't want it backed up, just delete it from the disklist. Or, if you're backing up / and want to exclude /tmp (which is in the same partition), use an exclude statement (in the dumptype) or exclude list. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
