I am sure others with more knowledge will make a more elegant change to
this:
cd /
tar -cf mybackup.tar *
gzip mybackup.tar
I am sure you can probably do the above in one command and their might also
be a switch or to for recursion and locked files and hidden files and also
including empty directories. Anyone?
Cheers,
Richard.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lotas T Smartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] backup question
> I want to backup my e-smith server. I have made a few costomisions to it,
> like added support for my winmodem, installed php4.0.5, and 1 or 2 other
> little things. I need to backup EVERYTHING!!! I, unfortunitly, dont have a
> tape backup drive. Is there a script that i can get that can backup the
> entire contents of my drive to a tar.gz file? Its something i think i
sould
> start doing cause i have fairly old hardware, and cant realy trust it
much.
> Please help. Thanks.
> PS. I would like something like the backup from harddrive. Even if there
was
> an option for bootable CD or something, just something that makes a
> compressed image of my drive, so i can download it of the server and burn
to
> a CD. Thanks!
> -----------------------------------------
> Lotas T Smartman
> CEO, LSN
> Dublin, Ireland
> www.lotas-smartman.net
> www.lsn-search.net
> freemail.lsnmail.net
> -----------------------------------------
>
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