Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:48:38 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >> OK. I downloaded Kdar so far. It was smaller and I'm on dial-up. Does >> these programs preserve file permissions? >> > > Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the > CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized chunks and kdar can > (AFAIR) write them to disc. dar also creates an index of what's in which > file and writes this to the first and last backup files. > >
May need a little more info on this archive part. If I use this to back up my whole system and then lets say the hard drive fails completely. I can just untar or unzip to restore the system right? I have some data to back up but I may use this to do a system back-up too. While I am at it, if I do a system back up, do I need to worry about backing up /proc and /sys? From my understanding the kernel generates these when it boots up. Just curious about what I really need to back up. Oh, what about /dev too. I use udev and have the tarball set to no. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-)
