Weeding out the backup chaff (Re: Questions bru-ing in my mind)

[Scott R. Presnell]

shenkin at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:

>was made.  That is, you don't really restore the file system;  you get
>a lot of chaff in there along with all the wheat.  I personally found that
>weeding the extraneous stuff out was a real chore.

Check the '-G' option available in the GNU version of tar.  

	- Scott
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