On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Troy Rollo <t...@parrycarroll.com.au> wrote:

> The approach here is to figure out what file system types need to be backed
> up,
> and exclude everything else.


The trouble with that approach is the backup doesn't contain the mount
points for the excluded file systems. So when you restore, you have to
create the mount points manually.
IMO, it's better to list all file systems you want to backup, and then
backup with --one-file-system or equivalent.
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