On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:03:16AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > find /my_dir \( -type f -o -type l \) | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T - what are the safe kind of things to exclude ? I was thinking of: -i zip -i cpio (both these are already backups of other data) /proc /tmp floppy Thanks a lot. Joe