Great! I'll give that a try, I think I can make
that work. Thanks very much to take the time to
respond, this helps me out tremendously.
thanks again.
--- "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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> David E. Fox Thanks for
> letting me
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