On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:04:37 -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote:
I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the
following location:
/mnt/back
When I try it uncompressed with
tar cvf /mnt/back/20031130 ~
it succeeds.
But when I try to do it compressed
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:10:17PM -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote:
After I noticed that, I deleted my message from the
server to not waste anyone's time. Apparently it stayed on long enough for
your patient answer. Thanks.
Interesting, you are using the GMANE gateway... of course since this is
a
- Original Message
From: Ralph Alvy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tar question
Date: 01/12/03 13:22
I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the
following location:
/mnt/back
When I try it uncompressed
Bob_parker wrote:
- Original Message
From: Ralph Alvy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tar question
Date: 01/12/03 13:22
I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the
following location:
/mnt/back
When
A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO
device. That device is registered in the system as
/dev/sda
and is mounted on
/mnt/mo
Neither of the following attempts success in creating a backup.tar.gz file
on my MO drive:
tar cvzf /dev/sda
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:47:29PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote:
A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO
device. That device is registered in the system as
/dev/sda
and is mounted on
/mnt/mo
Neither of the following attempts success in
Ashish Ariga wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:47:29PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote:
A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO
device. That device is registered in the system as
/dev/sda
and is mounted on
/mnt/mo
Neither of the following
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 19:23, Abner Gershon wrote:
This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I
have consulted as well as the man page and I can't
figure out how to use tar to back up my /home
directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my
other hard drive /dev/hdb7.
Other
This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I
have consulted as well as the man page and I can't
figure out how to use tar to back up my /home
directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my
other hard drive /dev/hdb7.
I accidentaly ran fsck today without making the file
system read
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:23:00PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I
have consulted as well as the man page and I can't
figure out how to use tar to back up my /home
directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my
other hard drive /dev/hdb7.
Hi,
* Abner Gershon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020618 12:23]:
snip
Anyway I change to my home directory, cd /home. Then
type tar -cf /mnt/abner (I previously mounted
/dev/hdb7 to /mnt)
The argumen tafter the f needs to be the distination file.
eg.
tar -cf /mnt/abner.tar abner
^^^
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Abner Gershon wrote:
This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I have consulted
as well as the man page and I can't figure out how to use tar to back
up my /home directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my other
hard drive /dev/hdb7.
I accidentaly ran
martin f krafft declaimed:
| On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| | causing recursion?
why would you want to backup /tmp???
The question was how to back up to a file _in_ /tmp. Which
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:50:36AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:08:35PM -0500, dman wrote:
| On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| | causing recursion?
|
| tar -zcvf
| On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| | causing recursion?
why would you want to backup /tmp???
--
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:08:35PM -0500, dman wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| causing recursion?
tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]*
tar acts recursively automatically, but it is
How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
causing recursion?
--
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154
Charleston SC.
--
Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| causing recursion?
tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]*
tar acts recursively automatically, but it is bad to try and include
the directory you are writing the tar
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