I wound up tarring (sp?) each directory off of root individually and the=20
complete.tgz file would open up empty (though file size was 1.2 gig)

didn't take long and worked fine for my needs.  It was only a one time ne=
ed,=20
or I would have been begging the list for scripting lessons.

anthony

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 03:22 pm, tickticker wrote:
> 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=09       6476984=09  762700   877300    xx%
> /usr/local
> /dev/sda6=09       6476984=09  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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