On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > I have a question about the disklist format. > > I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without > /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I > specify each directory in / as a separate DLE?
Depends on your disk configuration. Gnutar, as run by amanda, will not cross from one file system to another. When it reaches a directory that is a mount point for another partition (another common term for file system) it will not enter that directory. If /home is part of the root file system you will only need the / DLE. If /home is on a different file system (disk partition) it will need a separate DLE. Note, on systems that "automount" home directories, it is possible that /home should not be backed up at all. Ignore the comment if your environment does not automount home dirs - Solaris is often set up this way. Note also that not every directory in / is a separate file system. for example /etc is not a separate file system. But on my desktop computer /usr is a separate file system and so is /usr/local. Each need their own DLE's. Yet my laptop, with the same OS and version is configured with only one file system, /. So /usr and /usr/local do not need separate DLE's on the laptop. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)