vickde@vicstoy.uucp (Vick De Giorgio) (10/28/90)
I am running a taiwan 386 box with ISC 2.0.2. My problem is the lack of a tape drive. sysadm backup uses cpio, and takes 10 minutes a floppy to 1.44 floppies. My plan of attack was to put both /usr and /usr2 into /etc/save.d/except, then backup / with sysadm backup, leaving /usr and /usr2 for tar, which is much faster. I edited /etc/save.d/except to remove the standard lines starting with ^/usr/xxxx, and added the two lines ^/usr/ ^/usr2/ This didn't work. sysadm backup still tries to backup everything in /usr when I do a complete backup of root (I have small disks and didn't make a separate /usr filesystem). As an alternative, I put lines in /etc/save.d/except with the names of all subdirs off /usr. This didn't work any better. Anyone have any idea of what is going on? I really want to keep the sysadm backup down to 5 or 6 floppies so I can use the much faster tar for the rest of the system... =V= -- Vick De Giorgio - uunet!tarpit!bilver!vicstoy!vickde INTERNET - tarpit!bilver!vicstoy!vickde@ucf-cs.ucf.edu - The Philosopher's Stone Unix BBS, Orlando FL - (407) 299-3661 24 hours 8N1