I just do that out of habit. Yes, they are directories. If you're trying to exclude your external hard drive you have to find out its mount point. I suppose you could do that via Nautilus, I would...
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I just do that out of habit. Yes, they are directories. If you're trying to exclude your external hard drive you have to find out its mount point. I suppose you could do that via Nautilus, I would...
Regarding all this talk about excluding, I just use a text file which contains a list of all the directories I want to exclude and then pass the option
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Just my 2 cents, try to keep your tar.gz archives to less than 2 GB of source files. Anything more than this is going to take FOREVER to restore from, this is personal experience on an overclocked...