Backups Sharing

[Allen B. Riddell]

I've got a relatively small harddrive running Debian -- I could fit it all 
on a CD-R, and I'd like to, frankly. I LOVE debian and my system now.


What's the recommended way of doing this. I fear that I'll backup crazy 
stuff if I just tar the entire root directory --- isn't there some wacky 
stuff in /proc and other stuff to screw up?


Anyway -- any help would be appreciated.


Also -- I'm wondering, I mount my windows HD on to /win or something silly 
like that -- but is there any way I can give access to the directory /win 
-- read and write access to one user other than root?


Thanks

-abr 

Re: Backups Sharing

[Carl Mummert]

One solution:

As root:

# cd /
# find . -xdev | afio -o -Z filename.afio

xdev tells find not to go across a mount boundry, so you may have to 
list several root s for find, i.e.

# find . /root /other/dir /somewhere/else -xdev | afio -o -Z filename.afio

Of course, there a many ways to do this, some using tar, some using afio.
I am sure you will get other suggestions as well.

Backups Sharing

[Allen B. Riddell]

I've got a relatively small harddrive running Debian -- I could fit it all 
on a CD-R, and I'd like to, frankly. I LOVE debian and my system now.


What's the recommended way of doing this. I fear that I'll backup crazy 
stuff if I just tar the entire root directory --- isn't there some wacky 
stuff in /proc and other stuff to screw up?


Anyway -- any help would be appreciated.


Also -- I'm wondering, I mount my windows HD on to /win or something silly 
like that -- but is there any way I can give access to the directory /win 
-- read and write access to one user other than root?


Thanks

-abr