I've got a Redhat 5 server running Samba, and two dualboot CentOS 5
workstations.
Until we get a better backup strategy, I'm backing up the workstations to the
server via mounting a shared samba drive to /mnt.
Trying tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar /* eventually yields backing up
/mnt, which produces an unwanted loop, including /mnt/samba_share
I looked at tar with --exclude /mnt but didn't seem to get the results I
wanted.
I tried dump, which looked like it was working, but I have no idea what files
it was backing up, and couldn't find an option in the man page to have it show
me the files. I would have let it go, but since I couldn't be sure about /mnt
recusion, I opted out of it.
I ended up, for now, tarring each top-level directory to its own tar file,
except, of course, for /mnt.
What do people suggest?
Thanks.
Scott
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