[CentOS] Help with backups

[Tom Brown]

> I've got a Redhat 5 server running Samba, and two dualboot CentOS 5 
> workstations.
>
> Until we get a better backup strategy, I'm backing up the workstations 
> to the server via mounting a shared samba drive to /mnt.
>
> Trying tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar /* eventually yields 
> backing up /mnt, which produces an unwanted loop, including 
> /mnt/samba_share
>
> I looked at tar with --exclude /mnt but didn't seem to get the results 
> I wanted.
>
> I tried dump, which looked like it was working, but I have no idea 
> what files it was backing up, and couldn't find an option in the man 
> page to have it show me the files.  I would have let it go, but since 
> I couldn't be sure about /mnt recusion, I opted out of it.
>
> I ended up, for now, tarring each top-level directory to its own tar 
> file, except, of course, for /mnt.
>
> What do people suggest?


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