Hello Bret, Thanks, always helps to share the tricks-o-the-trade. Some of the archives I made were not fully reliable and took forever to deflate. Can u suggest a few good resources for cpio? I'll be checkin the man and docs but any "words-o-wisdom" would be greatly appreciated. Have u used Amanda? It's a automated network 2 tape backup system from the univ. of Maryland I believe. Very KOOL. Thanks again, Jesse.
Brett Campbell said: > hey what's up.. > > i've just recently fought the "tar battle" myself, having picked up my > first sysadmin job. after hours of beating my head trying to find > better solutions, i ended up deciding on cpio. it seems much more > reliable than tar (i archive to tape, and sometimes tar would just > sh1t all over me, not lending a hand to recover one file). just > thought i'd open your eyes to this nice tool if you hadn't found it > already. > > lion-O > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:57:50PM -0500, Jesse Jacobs wrote: >> 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 > > -- > ''Wisdom is the companion of patience'' > > ,-~~-.___. > / | ' \ > ( ) 0 > \_/-, ,----' > ==== // > / \-'~; /~~~(O) > / __/~| / | > =( _____| (_________| > > Brett Ryan Campbell > Systems Administrator, CAD Research Center > Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 > http://www.cadrc.calpoly.edu/frameset_content/content_about_us.html ----------------------------------------- Jesse Jacobs, R.H.C.T. Ajax, ON Canada -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
