Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt
You could try "find -xdev" which prevents find from entering other mounted filesystems. This should at least prevent find from entering the /media/mirror-directory, though you still have to grep it out since it prints the directory-name. Greetings, Mike -- Michael Hansen - http://www.pfna.de/ Monheim / Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
