On 07/17/2011 02:49 AM, Debasish Ray Chawdhuri wrote:
> The dd command makes an exact copy of the whole file system. If you
> restore the image with dd command, you will get all the softwares that
> were installed when you created the backup image, along with all the
> settings. If you think now your system is stable, create a backup with
> dd now, and later on if something goes wrong, just restore the backup.
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Parveen Arora <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Debasish Ray Chawdhuri
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > You can create an image of your hard disk ( or just a partition )
> with dd
> No, I want to crate the restore point at stably working of all the
> software with installed ubuntu.
>
> Creating image of hard disk can be considered as something like backup
> of system.
Please don't top post.
Creating image of hard disk is not a solution, the image will be created
for whole size of the disk. You need to use tar to create the image.
tar -cpf <path-to-backup>.tar / --exclude=/{proc,dev,sys}
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