I would do something like the following:
find /root/of/tree [conditions] |tar cjfT backup.tar.bz2 -
That's the cleanest way to do it. Plus, tar will start backing things up as it receives the filenames rather than waiting until find has generated a complete list. I love UNIX.
Thanks, Andrew, that's just what I need. I didn't know about tar's -T option, this should work great. I'll let you know if I still have any problems.
Jacob
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