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 Date: 2003/03/04 Tue PM 01:50:27 EST To: Plug 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- David IS Mandala gpg fingerprint 8932 E7EF CCF5 1B8C 1B5C A92E C678 795E 45B2 D952 Phoenix, AZ (480) 460-7545 HP, (602) 741-1363 CP http://www.them.com/~davidm/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss