> 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? www.amanda.org backed up windows servers using this and its great -