Around 01:56am on Saturday, August 18, 2007 (UK time), Scott Ehrlich scrawled: > 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. tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar --exclude=/mnt /* I'd also use nfs, not samba. Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 02:00:14 up 12 days, 14:24, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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