On 20/02/12 15:54, Rob Owens wrote:
I'd also exclude lost+found
If there's anything in there, then it could have been recovered from
anywhere on the filesystem, and could be valuable. I'd include it.
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Hi,
My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config files. Just
before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to have a quick and
dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run files like dhcp.leases etc.
So what I do is a simple:
tar -zcf /mnt/backup
Hey,
Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote:
tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude
/proc --exclude /sys
Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686
it seems my backup is running forever
I would suggest also excluding /dev,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Hey,
Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote:
tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude
/proc --exclude /sys
Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel
2.6.26-2-686 it
I found this webpage useful for describing how to use tar for full backups:
http://www.aboutdebian.com/tar-backup.htm
Keith Ostertag
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Hey,
Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote:
tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz /
Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl writes:
Hi,
My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config files. Just
before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to have a quick and
dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run files like dhcp.leases
etc. So what I do
On 02/20/2012 05:40 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config
files. Just before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to
have a quick and dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run
files like dhcp.leases etc. So what I do
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