backing up the hard drive

[David Mandala]

-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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