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From: rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: find in ISC 2.02
Keywords: ISC
Message-ID: <655@wa4mei.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 02:40:30 GMT
References: <2618@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Organization: Amateur Radio Gateway WA4MEI, Chamblee, GA
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In <2618@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:

>I use find to backup my system (together with cpio or afio).
>I have a couple of mounted file systems, which I don't want to
>backup. Therefore I used the -local switch to find.
>This works fine. Unfortunately there is one very huge file system
>mounted (/usr/spool/news). Because of that, find spents a very long 
>time in looking through this directory tree.
>Is there a way to prevent that (except unmounting it)?

>Thanks
>Fritz

I was having a similar problem at work. I had a system to backup
that had two nfs file systems mounted.  The work-a-round that I ended
up using was as follows.

	/bin/ls / | grep -v unwanted-file-system >/tmp/files
	sort -o /tmp/files /tmp/files	(I like neat lists)
	cat /tmp/files | cpio(or afio) -options >/dev/tape-device

This way eliminates the need to unmount the file system or waste
a lot of time searching through unwanted directories.

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