On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Traut <tr.ml@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi List, > > hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. > > My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: > > 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz > /etc /root /home && touch /tmp/state_backup-backup Try this: 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz -C / etc root/home && touch /tmp/state_backup-backup _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos