> If I did a
>
> tar zcvf whole.tar
>
> will this back up the whole dadgum drive. And if so, how do you untar on a
> new drive? Or do you reinstall linix and then untar over all the files?
Avoid using the 'z' flag when doing backups. Reason: if tar hits an error
when extracting that archive, everything past the error in a compressed
archive is lost to you. The newer versions of FTAPE (3.0x +) have
compression built in that's apparently a lot safer.
I learned this one the hard way, and our fileserver was down for three
days while I picked up the pieces. OTOH, that was what finally moved me
from Slackware to RedHat, so it wasn't all a bad thing... =)
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