Weeding out the backup chaff (Re: Questions bru-ing in my mind)
Scott R. Presnell
srp at babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu
Sat Dec 29 05:10:52 AEST 1990
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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