From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 14: 9: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.carolina.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A2537B417 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:08:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from snafu.enterit.com ([66.57.159.198]) by mail8.carolina.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:08:56 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020307173216.03a0ffe0@mail.enterit.com> X-Sender: jconner@enterit.com@mail.enterit.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:33:01 -0500 To: "Scott Gerhardt" From: Jim Conner Subject: Re: Tar Backup Cc: "FreeBSD" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 would use mkisofs instead...just me though. Then you could gzip it (if necessary) and simply burn it directly. Just my 2 cents. At 15:57 03.07.2002 -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: >I'm using tar to do a full system backup using the following command: > >tar -zcvpf /usr/archive/full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz \ >--directory / --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc --exclude=cdrom \ >--exclude=usr/ports --exclude /usr/archive . > >What other directories should I exclude? >/usr/src? > >My goal is to do a system dump which can be moved off the machine and >burned to CD. Total including /usr/src is about 450MB. > >Any suggestions to do this better. > >Thanks, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message