>And I would only be able to backup ALL hda or ALL hdb, but not just
>/usr/bin without getting into GNUTAR exclusions and such...maybe I'm
>wrong...
You're wrong :-).
If you put a directory name in your disklist (instead of something like
"hdb" or "/dev/hdb"), that just gets passed to GNU tar as is, so it's
pretty easy to just do a subdirectory.
Now the problem is if you also list the top level mount point as well.
That would cause it and the subdirectory to both be dumped. That's where
you would need an exclusion to ignore the subdirectory when doing the
whole partition.
But if you don't have very many subdirectories and list each one by
itself and never mention the top level, it will work just fine.
>DL
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
