[BBLISA] Help with backups

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Dan Ritter wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:56:20PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> I've got a Redhat 5 server running Samba, and two dualboot CentOS 5
>> workstations.
> ...
>> I ended up, for now, tarring each top-level directory to its own tar file,
>> except, of course, for /mnt.
>>
>> What do people suggest?
>
> rsync and --exclude

The --exclude options for rsync look similar to tar.   If I wanted to 
include a directory for exclusion, what would the proper command-line be 
for tar and rsync to exclude a directory?

Thanks.

Scott

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