From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 13:56:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blue.gerhardt-it.com (gw.gerhardt-it.com [204.83.38.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D452237B47D for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:56:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from git2000 (git2000 [192.168.100.101]) by blue.gerhardt-it.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 55EE4FD94 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:55:55 -0600 (CST) From: "Scott Gerhardt" To: "FreeBSD" Subject: Tar Backup Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:57:32 -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'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, _________________________________ 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