Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:26:36 -0600 From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com> To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Backup using TAR Message-ID: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGMEDMDGAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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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
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