Hello everyone, Here's the link: http://www.xs4all.nl/~voorburg/backup.html
I'll be fiddling with it. J Jesse Jacobs said: > Hello everyone, > > First thank you for the great responses. > As with any one that uses Linux I don't give up easily and used: > > find / -maxdepth 1 > /tar.test.txt > nano /tar.test.txt > ** removed /exports,/proc,/tmp etc. ** > tar cvjpf /exports/full-test-backup090303.tar.bz2 -T tar.test.txt > > ** this was missing directories though /exports,/proc,/tmp > Not perfect, and took forever on the loaded system. > Now that you have provided me with the correct syntax I'll have to > redo it(another trait of Linux users seems to be the constant stride > to perfection, haven't u noticed :) ). > > When searching, I found a great little cronjob/script for full and > incremental weekly backups using tar. I'll post it as soon as I get > home :) > > Thanks again guys, > Jesse. > > Mark A Basil said: >> Hey Jesse, >> >> Another solution would be to create a text file with what you want to >> backup. >> >> i.e. >> >> backuplist.txt >> --------------------------- >> /usr/ >> /etc/ >> --------------------------- >> >> tar cvjpf yourbackup.tar.bz2 -T backuplist.txt >> >> -Mark >> >> On Monday 10 March 2003 10:58 am, Meir Kriheli wrote: >>> On Sunday 09 March 2003 22:45, Jesse Jacobs wrote: >>> > Hello everyone, >>> > >>> > I would like to backup my system minus some dirs. >>> > >>> > I print to a file the files/dirs i'd like to skip >>> > >>> > mount /dev/hda1 /boot >>> > find /proc > /tar.test.txt >>> > find /exports >> /tar.test.txt >>> > tar -cvjpsPf -X /tar.test.txt / >>> /exports/backup-full-090303.tar.bz2 >>> > >>> > But when the archive starts the specified dirs are included :) >>> > >>> > I hope to use this for compiling a optimised i686/athlon-xp base >>> to >>> be used for my own rapid deployment. >>> > >>> > Also I've noticed the archives in /usr/portage/distfiles/*.tbz2 or >>> tar.bz2 I was hoping I could tar these and extract to the fresh base >>> for a little bandwith savings. >>> > >>> > Jesse Jacobs. >>> >>> Hi Jesse, >>> >>> You don't need to specify each file in the excludes file. I usually >>> do it with --exclude switch and specify wild cards. >>> >>> I advise against using -P as it can lead to accidents. If you untar >>> it as root by accident it'll overwrite your current system (since / >>> is included). Let tar strip the leading / and untar in the root dir. >>> >>> -p is not really needed at this stage AFAIK, as it affects extract, >>> not creation. You might want to revers the order since usually >>> after 'f' is passed tar is expecting the file name. >>> >>> Try this for example: >>> tar -cvjpf /exports/backup-full-090303.tar.bz2 --directory / >>> --exclude=proc --exclude=exports >>> >>> You can exclude other dirs as well (tmp/* contents for example). >>> >>> There are many tutorials on the net about it, Google will surely >>> find some for you. >> >> -- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
