On Sunday 04 February 2001 18:16, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to back up everything on /, format it then
> restore. I don't want to do an image copy however,
If you are using tar, and you don't (necessarily) want to back up /home /usr
etc., since they are on other partitions, you can use the --one-file-system
switch for tar which will keep it from backing up other partitions hanging
off of root. You can also append the '--excludedir' option for excluding
directories such as /proc. /proc itself seems OK to backup, but it's a waste
of tape space, and restoring /proc doesn't make any sense. Backing up /dev is
al right - it just backs up the file names themselves.
The difficulty remains in restoring the / partition. If you wipe it out and
then try to restore it, you will run into problems. For instance, 'tar' is in
/bin, and /bin is gone if you format the root partition. You'll likely need
to boot with a rescue disk which has 'tar' and other stuff on it and then
mount your root partition somewhere else, then restore it.
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