On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:20:04PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Simon Young wrote: > > > The question is, should I be refering to paths rather than devices when > > using tar? Like this: > > > > henry / root-tar > > henry /usr user-tar > > > > Yes. You may even use path for if you use dump instead of tar. Amanda > will make then necessary conversion for you. > > > ...and have an exclude file for, say, the root filesystem which ignores > > all the mount points covered by the other DLEs? > > No, you don't need that. GNUTAR is run with the option > '--one-file-system' that avoids crossing mount points.
Excellent! Thanks very much :-) Simon
