general backup question/tar

Hi! At the moment I´m cycling through a few tapes doing backups every week or so with tar cvz --exclude /proc --exclude /dev --exclude /tmp / /dev/st0 Are there any precautions I should take that I have forgotten/not yet heard about? I can do a recover to someplace (eg /tmp/recover) and get

Re: general backup question/tar

Robert Waldner wrote: Also, is there a possibility to find out (rather than trying through tar tv(Iz)) if a tape is tar.gz, tar.bz2 or plain tar? use the file command file file will tell you what kind of file the system thinks file is nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/

Re: general backup question/tar

hi ya... my favorite topic for flame warsnext to dns flames... I like tar for backups - and i dont worry about restore too much... since if you need to restore...something else is probably (seriously) wrong too - restoring a file from tape is too too

Re: general backup question/tar

On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:53:36 PDT, Alvin Oga writes: my favorite topic for flame warsnext to dns flames... ;-) I like tar for backups - and i dont worry about restore too much... since if you need to restore...something else is probably (seriously) wrong too -