Re: [Mondo-devel] Only /home and exclusion

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

David SZERMAN said on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:21:01PM +0200:

> 1) is it possible to backup only /home, for example ? Won't it
> overwrite the / when I restore ?

Well no. mondorescue is a disaster recovery tool. Not a backup solution.
For that look at amanda or bacula.

> 2) I want to exclude my /media folder (which contains dvd, external
> hard drive, and so on) ; what happens when I restore ? Do i see a
> /media folder which is empty or there won't be any folder /media ?

IIRC, you'll see an empty directory. 

Bruno.
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