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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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