On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 16:00, Andy Engels wrote: > Hi gang............. > > I'm running Suse on an lpar on a MP3K H30. I need to back this thing up > and I think I'm having some kind of senior moment. > > I'm trying amanda but that's kind of different to set up and seems to be a > bit much for my purposes. I'd really just like an image backup using tar > but I keep erroring out, I think when it fills the tape. > > My tar command is: tar cvf /dev/ntibm0 / > > I'm trying to backup the whole planet. Do any of you see an error in my > tar command or is there a better utility (preferably a freebee)?
You can do better with tar. For starters, if you want to be able to restore that backup in any useful sense, you want a "p" option to preserve permissions. If you use -j it will compress with bzip2, if you use -z it will compress with gzip, and -Z with compress. Those are in reverse order of compression ratio. So the first thing to try is "tar cvfpj /dev/ntibm0 /" Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
