On Fri December 9 2005 3:49 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote: > If you read my command line you'll see that I'm using --exclude now > to try and tell tar to not grab anything in /mksysb/. ?I'm not > getting the desired results. you used : --exclude ./mksysb/* . why the "." in front?? maybe if you used the full complete path?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800