Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:40:31 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1016070032.0ed44e@mired.org> To: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tar Backup Message-ID: <15497.26639.998605.154151@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <75790501@toto.iv>
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Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com> types: > I'm using tar to do a full system backup using the following command: Bad idea. > 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? /dev. Tar can't handle the entries in it. It's also going to lose any flags that may be set anywhere on the system. > 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. If you're planning on restoring the system from this CD, you'll want to use something other than tar. If you're using it to create a bootable CD for recovery, then I thought I saw a reasonable solution go buy. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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