I have a freebsd 8.0 install and was wondering if it is possible to tar
up the entire install...for backup purposes.
# cd /
# tar -cvf backup.tar {list of directories}
then I can ftp the tar file out to another machine.
This works in theory, but if I need to do a restore tar complains
on 'tar -xpf backup.tar'.
Under OpenBSD, this works as expected. It has given me an easy way
to backup/move/restore or anything I want to do w/o complaining.
I am running Freebsd on a machine that has no other drives/tapes or
anything so my options for backup are limited.
All I am trying to do is get a complete image (or snapshot) of my entire
install on this machine and then if I needed to reload or reinstall, I
could do a bare bones freebsd install, copy over the tar'd up file and
extract it from within / and then reboot an I would be go to go.
Thoughts on this would be appreciated...
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J.D. Bronson
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