If I understand you coreectly, and all you want to do is back up your filesystem to another drive mounted on /backup, you could just do this:
# cd / # mount boot # tar cvfz backup/backup.tgz boot/ bin/ etc/ home/ lib/ ... # umount boot Alkis Evlogimenos said: > On Saturday 24 January 2004 01:00 pm, Glenn English wrote: >> I'm not sure what "the same machine on a different mount" means. > > hda mounted at / > hdc mounted at /home > hde mounted at /backup > > I want to backup / and /home on /backup and I am going to use only one > machine > (so I guess in amanda's terms the machine will be both a client and a > server). > > -- > > Alkis > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list