In article <3faa0949$0$150$e4fe514c@dreader5.news.xs4all.nl >, Dekkers Intermediair wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm backupping data in /home to tape using tar.
> But I get it only working when I backup the whole /home directory with
> tar -cf /dev/rst0 /home,
> while I would like to backup not all directories in /home, but only a
> selection. I tried to use several tar commands in a row with tar -cf
> /dev/nrst0 ..., but only from the first tar I can restore data
>
> What do I do wrong? Or do I ask for something impossible?
>

Hi,

first of all have a look at the man-page for other options
of tar.
Try to run
#tar -cf /dev/rst0 /home/dir1 /home/dir2 ...
That will do the job.

georg