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Old 06-10-2011, 09:52 PM   #1
hubiedo
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star backup tape command


can anyone help me with a command for star to back up to tape and exclude a dir i.e. /proc

here is one of many that i tried

# star -cv -V pattern=proc/\* -f /dev/st0 /

i have read extensively and no go!

this does work in tar but i want to use star

# tar czvpf /dev/st0 / --exclude=proc/

any help would be appreciated.
 
  


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