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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 02:05:29 -0200
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From: Ricardo AG Almeida <ricardag@ag.com.br>
Subject: Best backup solution?
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Hi,

I have two machines in the same Ethernet segment.

Machine #1 have a DAT unit, and mounts (via NFS) Machine #2 filesystems at
/server2

To backup both machines I am using

tar -cSPM --totals \
--exclude "/dev/*" \
--exclude "/proc/*" \
--exclude "/var/*" \
--exclude "/server2/dev/*" \
--exclude "/server2/proc/*"  \
--exclude "/server2/var/*" \
/ /server2

It works, but the symbolic links from /server2 are not saved in the backup
tape.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a better solution?


[]'s,

   Ricardo AG Almeida
   AG SISTEMAS (http://www.ag.com.br)