I appreciate the advice on how to automate TAR/GZIP. Concerning the matter of restoring, especially something like a full system backup, I am having another problem.
When I open up a TAR file, by default it will dump into the directory where the TAR file is located. The problem is, if my my TAR/GZIP file is too large to fit into the /.. partition, I can't do a full restore directly from there. I would have to unpack it in another directory (or perhaps even another drive) and then copy the folders to my original drive individually. Is there a setting that can be applied to TAR to make the restore occur in another drive, or lower-level folder, in other words, with absolute directories, instead of relative? I have read the instructions on TAR in a few different books, and in the HOWTO pages, but these all just explain only the basic packing and unpacking function, and don't give me a clue as to how to solve this problem. Chuck
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