Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:33:01 -0500 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com> Cc: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Tar Backup Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020307173216.03a0ffe0@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGEEGPECAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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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
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