On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:41:19 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote:
I guess really what I'm saying is no, it is not a good idea. There's
plenty of other backup solutions out there that would work better than
this scheme. If you have a server and space for the file, rsync would
even be a better
On Friday 04 November 2005 01:44, Richard Watson wrote:
Hi ... I've just spent ages compiling my laptop. I'm really happy with
the result ... So fast ...
What I want to is create a directory called /backup and then create a
tarball using the command
# tar -zcvf /backup/mylaptop.tar /[all
Or maybe bind / to a subdir and tar from it. It's like
--one-filesystem but it works always (for me).
2005/11/4, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:29:17 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
you need to --exclude /proc, or you'll run into problems.
You should exclude
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:02:41 +0100, capsel wrote:
Or maybe bind / to a subdir and tar from it. It's like
--one-filesystem but it works always (for me).
Why go to the trouble of mounting / again when tar already has an option
to deal with this?
I don't doubt that it works, but it seems like a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:02:41 +0100, capsel wrote:
Or maybe bind / to a subdir and tar from it. It's like
--one-filesystem but it works always (for me).
Why go to the trouble of mounting / again when tar already has an option
to deal with this?
I don't doubt that
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:29:51 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
It has one major advantage regarding udev, in that some device nodes
(/dev/console, for example) must exist in the /dev directory on the
root filesystem, and when /dev is mounted and you use --one-filesystem,
you won't backup those
Hi ... I've just spent ages compiling my laptop. I'm really happy with
the result ... So fast ...
What I want to is create a directory called /backup and then create a
tarball using the command
# tar -zcvf /backup/mylaptop.tar /[all directories] except /backup (as I
don't want to go in circles).
2005/11/4, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
# tar -zcvf /backup/mylaptop.tar /[all directories] except /backup (as I
don't want to go in circles).
I'm then going to copy off the resulting tarball to my server in case my
laptop dies (I'd rather not have to recompile everything). Does this
# tar -zcvf /backup/mylaptop.tar /[all directories] except /backup (as I
don't want to go in circles).
You're going to want to exclude portions of /var, /dev, /proc /sys, /tmp,
... You're also going to want to dig deeper into command line options to
preserve ownership, links rather than
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:41 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote:
I guess really what I'm saying is no, it is not a good idea. There's plenty
of other backup solutions out there that would work better than this scheme.
If you have a server and space for the file, rsync would even be a better
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