Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread postid
--- dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: From: "Douglas A. Tutty" To: pos...@basicisp.net Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: tar on flash drive Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:44 -0500 On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: > I have a damaged system on my

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/19/2009 07:42 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: does this mean you are excluding backing up email? In that command. The next two statements, though, are: tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: > I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, > then will likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd > like to save the home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the > etc folder, kee

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > does this mean you are excluding backing up email? > > In that command.  The next two statements, though, are: > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_heather.tar.bz2 \ >      ho

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> does this mean you are excluding backing up email? > > In that command. The next two statements, though, are: > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_he

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/19/2009 06:11 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: ache/ \ --exclude=heather/.evolution/mail \ --exclude=heather/.evolution/cache \ --exclude=heather/.sylpheed-2.0 \ --exclude=me/Maildir \ --exclude=heather/Mail

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > have a look at rdiff-backup For a one time solution, I'd prefer rsync instead of tar or rdiff-backup. I might be biased, though, because I prefer rsync for regular backups, too. (A small backup script creating snapshots with rsync

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > ache/ \ >          --exclude=heather/.evolution/mail   \ >          --exclude=heather/.evolution/cache   \ > --exclude=heather/.sylpheed-2.0 \ > --exclude=me/Maildir \ > --exclude=heather/Maildir \ >          home/ does this mean

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/19/2009 01:25 AM, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, keeping permissions. I'll us

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: > I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will > likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the > home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, kee

tar on flash drive

2009-01-18 Thread postid
I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, keeping permissions. I'll use a live cd to do the salvage work (lenny live, k