excludes list

[Chinook <chinook.nr@tds.net>]

Next step: excludes.

In cloning my system I want to capture everything that is important if I 
need to "rollback" to a clone, but I don't want to waste time with data 
that is not needed.

For example, I might exclude anything within /tmp [?], /proc, 
/home/<usr>/tmp
 but not /dev, /etc, /var, /home (other than <usr>/tmp and known 
fluff), /root and /opt.

Been googling around for more than over generalizations but have not 
done so well yet :-)

Any comments, urls, etc would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Lee C


PS: I'm well acquainted with HFS+ on my Mac, but stepping easy with ext3 
:-)