From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 12:25:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from indigo.quadrant.net (indigo.quadrant.net [207.195.92.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4725A37B416 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:25:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from git2000 (56K76.quadrant.net [207.195.92.76]) by indigo.quadrant.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA14314 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:25:41 -0600 (CST) From: "Scott Gerhardt" To: "FreeBSD" Subject: Backup using TAR Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:26:36 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am experimenting with tar as a mechanism to do a full backup of my system. I would like to backup the entire system to file which will later be copied to cd (roughly 450MB). Here is the command I'm using: tar cpf /usr/archive/full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar --directory / --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/usr/archive --exclude=/proc . What other directories should I exclude? Are there any other recommended parameters? I've looked at the tar manpage but it is a little overwhelming. _________________________________ Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message