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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris tar command to ignore mount points? Post 302997016 by hicksd8 on Friday 5th of May 2017 12:25:17 PM
Old 05-05-2017
I think that, assuming you have a root filesystem (/), a /export, and a /export/home all as individual filesystems, then I reckon so.

Basically, look at it like this. The -mount switch restricts 'find' to the filesystem of the directory that you are currently in. Therefore, you would need to:

Code:
# cd /export
# find -mount . | xargs tar cvf archive.tar

Give that a go on Solaris 9. Tell me if I'm wrong.

---------- Post updated at 05:10 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:02 PM ----------

Of course, unless the /export filesystem contains other mount points to lower levels, what I wrote above would just work anyway without the '-mount'. It just creates a relative path backup which can therefore be restored to anywhere on the system you choose (which is good practice).

---------- Post updated at 05:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:10 PM ----------

You could also simply use:

Code:
 # cd /export
 # tar cvf archive.tar .

if /export has no lower mount points on it.
 

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