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Old 09-17-2008
Need a script to tar all file systems on the machine into one filesystem.
Hi
I am very poor at scripting.Smilie

I need to develop a script that should tar up all the filesystems on the machine on to a single filesystem called /tarfilesystem.

Any suggestions ...
Thank You very much
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Old 09-17-2008

Code:
tar cf /tarfilesystem/all.tar $( echo /* | grep -v tarfilesystem)

(This assumes that there are no spaces in the directory names in the root directory.)
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