Am 15.03.2011 12:37, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Traut<tr.ml at gmx.de> wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. >> >> My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: >> >> 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz >> /etc /root /home&& touch /tmp/state_backup-backup > > Try this: > > 20 23 * * * tar -zcf > /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz -C / etc root/home&& > touch /tmp/state_backup-backup Hmm, I already did? tar -zc -f /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz -C / etc root home && touch /tmp/state_backup-backup But the problem with it is, as soon as you use excludes this can be dangerous because they can match everywhere in your backup path. Rainer