On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:17:01 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:
> > That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2
> > and gzip compression and handle it automatically.
>
> You are correct. I didn't realize it could detect. Thanks for
> the info.
It may only save one characte
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:
>
> > > tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2
> >
> > To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the "j" option.
>
> That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect
On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:
> > tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2
>
> To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the "j" option.
That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and
gzip compression and handle it automatically.
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Neil Bothwick
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:12:08PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 1) I'm having trouble figuring how to best run tar. I end up with
> files at the wrong level every time so far.
>
> Assume I first mount a partition that's empty, and then mount a
> partition I want to save that contains a number of sy
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Look into what's called a "stage 4 backup":
> >
> http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_System_Backup_Script_(stage4)
> >
> > I'v
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Look into what's called a "stage 4 backup":
> http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_System_Backup_Script_(stage4)
>
> I've had to actually use it once, and it worked fine. It already excludes
> the appropriate f
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jil & Neil,
> >Thanks for the really great information! I'm going to give this a try
> today.
> >
> >It strikes me that to test my backup I co
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jil & Neil,
>Thanks for the really great information! I'm going to give this a try
> today.
>
>It strikes me that to test my backup I could create a chroot on the
> very system I'm backing up. (Or some other system.)
Jil & Neil,
Thanks for the really great information! I'm going to give this a try today.
It strikes me that to test my backup I could create a chroot on the
very system I'm backing up. (Or some other system.) I follow the
procedure we're outlining here using the install CD and when it's done
On Sun, 04 May 2008 12:21:47 +0200, Jil Larner wrote:
> You also ought to backup the full MBR, which is a good practice, so you
> can bring back your boot sector and the partition table. Backing it up
> if very painless, just a dd command, cf. http://gentoo-wiki.com/MBR .
The MBR contains only
Hi Mark,
Mark Knecht a écrit :
[...]
happen I have a way to restore where I am today. Since the disk usage
is currently about 4GB it seems like a great time to do it. Is this
possible? I think it's essentially what the stage 3 file is that I use
when I install, isn't it?
If you don't export s
I've never done this before so it seems like right now would be a
great time to learn. Thanks in advance.
I've just done this installation on my laptop. For the most part it's
working fine. Still a few things to iron out but it's good enough that
I'd like to save the state of the machine so that s
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