Around 01:56am on Saturday, August 18, 2007 (UK time), Scott Ehrlich scrawled: > 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. tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar --exclude=/mnt /* I'd also use nfs, not samba. Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 02:00:14 up 12 days, 14:24, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070818/bc001763/attachment-0005.sig>