Re: tar & samba file systems

Re: tar & samba file systems

[jason]

--one-file-system and then just specify the mounts that you want to backup. ala /boot / /home

-- 
Jason
The place where you made your stand never mattered,
only that you were there... and still on your feet

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Luca Ferrari wrote:

> Hi,
> I've got a few samba shares mounted on a directory tree that I backup with 
> tar. I'd like my backups does not include the samba shares, that is backups 
> include files of the local file system only, but even with the -l option tar 
> is exploring the samba shares, increasing backup time. Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>

tar & samba file systems

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi,
I've got a few samba shares mounted on a directory tree that I backup 
with tar. I'd like my backups does not include the samba shares, that is 
backups include files of the local file system only, but even with the 
-l option tar is exploring the samba shares, increasing backup time. Any 
suggestion?

Thanks,
Luca
-- 
Luca Ferrari
fluca1978@infinito.it

RE: tar & samba file systems

[Callahan, Tom]

Or you can use --exclude to specify directories/files not to be backed
up....

Tom Callahan

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of jason
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:45 AM
To: Luca Ferrari
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tar & samba file systems

--one-file-system and then just specify the mounts that you want to backup.
ala /boot / /home

-- 
Jason
The place where you made your stand never mattered,
only that you were there... and still on your feet

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Luca Ferrari wrote:

> Hi,
> I've got a few samba shares mounted on a directory tree that I backup with

> tar. I'd like my backups does not include the samba shares, that is
backups 
> include files of the local file system only, but even with the -l option
tar 
> is exploring the samba shares, increasing backup time. Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
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Re: tar & samba file systems

[Adam T. Bowen]

Hi,

       I have had similar behaviour from tar before when using -l (aka 
--one-file-system).  It was because I was doing something like:

       tar -lcvf local_files.tar *

in /.  The * of course is expanded to all the filenames in the directory 
causing the command to look like:

       tar -lcvf local_files.tar etc bin boot home ...

So even though, say, home is mounted on another partition to /, I am 
stating the name of home on the command line and so it is included.  Any 
  other non-local file systems encountered whilst traversing the 
directories given will not be followed of course.  Anyway, the solution 
is to do:

       tar -lcvf local_files.tar .

or just name the directories you want.

Hope that helps.

Adam

Callahan, Tom wrote:
> Or you can use --exclude to specify directories/files not to be backed
> up....
> 
> Tom Callahan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of jason
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:45 AM
> To: Luca Ferrari
> Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: tar & samba file systems
> 
> --one-file-system and then just specify the mounts that you want to backup.
> ala /boot / /home
>