On Friday 04 November 2005 01:44, Richard Watson wrote: > Hi ... I've just spent ages compiling my laptop. I'm really happy with > the result ... So fast ... > > What I want to is create a directory called /backup and then create a > tarball using the command > > # tar -zcvf /backup/mylaptop.tar /[all directories] except /backup (as I > don't want to go in circles). > > I'm then going to copy off the resulting tarball to my server in case my > laptop dies (I'd rather not have to recompile everything). Does this > sound OK?If I ever had to restore I would copy the file to / and run the > command. > > # tar -zxvf mylaptop.tar > -- > Thanks, Richard
you need to --exclude /proc, or you'll run into problems. You should exclude /sys, /dev/, /tmp and /var/run -- [email protected] mailing list
