backing up the hard drive

[tickticker]

harddrive has 2 partitions: / and /home.  tarred /home to 
home.tgz and while tarring / recieved: 
 
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors 
 
the last file shown was the home.tgz file in / before it 
crashed. 
 
cleaning things up and moving home.tgz off of / 
 
I'll keep everyone posted on the results 
 
anthony 
 
It seems to have failed as the file is only 1.2 gigs for 
8+gig worth of stuff (compression isn't that good is it?) 
 
 
From: David Mandala <davidm@them.com> 
Date: 2003/03/04 Tue PM 01:50:27 EST 
To: Plug <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> 
Subject: Re: backing up the hard drive 
 
-l would stay in a single file system which would exclude 
/proc since it 
is a different file system. So you might have to do a 
couple of tar 
files, first tar any sub file systems you want. 
 
If you have forexample: 
/dev/sda1             16476984   4762700  10877300  31% / 
/dev/sda5	       6476984	  762700   877300    xx% 
/usr/local 
/dev/sda6	       6476984	  762700   877300    xx% 
/var 
 
 
[root@dual /]#tar czvf var.tgz /var 
[root@dual /]#tar czvf usr_local.tgz /usr/local 
[root@dual /]#tar tar -czlvf / complete.tgz 
 
This will tar up sda5 and sda6 leaving the tar files on 
sda1 then the 
final tar will scoop them up into the complete image. 
 
Cheers, 
 
Davidm 
 
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 11:31, tickticker wrote: 
> Hello everyone, 
>  
> moving a server from mandrake to redhat, but I'd like to 
tar.gz the Mandrake drives, minus the proc directory, for 
backup purposes, before i wipe it and install RH.  
basically, the whole drive in one tar.gz file that I can 
copy off the machine in case i might need something. 
>  
> Would anyone happen to know what the tar command would 
be for this?  I would play around and look myself but 
there is a time crunch here, and ark is too slow. 
>  
> Thank you for you quick replies 
>  
> anthony 
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