I was going to ask "how do you skip /proc when tarring?" but I'll read the man page when I get home.
>When I was a Linux newbie and had a DAT drive to play with, I thought I >back up my Linux system and typed "tar -cf /dev/XXX /". To make sure, >I restored it and typed "mt rewind; tar -xpf /dev/XXX". Funnily enough, >part way through the restore would hang, no matter how often I tried, >so I gave up. It was some while later until I found out why.
