On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:34:44AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Close, but no cigar. > > syntax is: > > tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory. > > To make a full backup I did: > > tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc > > (my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This command backed up > everything, except the dev and proc directories. (I had some BAD > things happen trying to access the devices as files, and you don't > need to backup the /proc directory as it does NOT exist on the disk.) > Don't leave your cd rom mounted for this or it will get backed up > also, why waste 650MB of tape for something that can't be trashed?!
here is how I do my full backups and it works GREAT
tar clvf /dev/st0 /
This uses -l which tells it to ONLY get things on the local device
NB: if /home or anything is on a differnt partition then it needs
to be explicitly added.
This works well for me, excludes /proc and /cdrom etc
Just thought I would pass it along ;)
-Steve
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