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Re: chicken and egg
Use the --exclude option.
But, um, it might get crazy inside /dev and/or /proc (probably
will), so you might want to have an exclude file and --exclude-from.
Aviram Jenik wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Stupid check-and-the-egg question.
> I want to back up my entire hard-drive to a tgz file using tar. How can I do
> this, without adding the tar to the tar?!
>
> Thanks.
>
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