Hello Bret,
Thanks, always helps to share the tricks-o-the-trade.
Some of the archives I made were not fully reliable and took forever to
deflate. Can u suggest a few good resources for cpio? I'll be checkin
the man and docs but any "words-o-wisdom" would be greatly appreciated.
Have u used Amand
hey what's up..
i've just recently fought the "tar battle" myself, having picked up my first sysadmin
job. after hours of beating my head trying to find better solutions, i ended up
deciding on cpio. it seems much more reliable than tar (i archive to tape, and
sometimes tar would just sh1t al
Hello everyone,
Here's the link: http://www.xs4all.nl/~voorburg/backup.html
I'll be fiddling with it.
J
Jesse Jacobs said:
> Hello everyone,
>
> First thank you for the great responses.
> As with any one that uses Linux I don't give up easily and used:
>
> find / -maxdepth 1 > /tar.test.txt
> na
Hello everyone,
First thank you for the great responses.
As with any one that uses Linux I don't give up easily and used:
find / -maxdepth 1 > /tar.test.txt
nano /tar.test.txt
** removed /exports,/proc,/tmp etc. **
tar cvjpf /exports/full-test-backup090303.tar.bz2 -T tar.test.txt
** this was mis
Hey Jesse,
Another solution would be to create a text file with what you want to backup.
i.e.
backuplist.txt
---
/usr/
/etc/
---
tar cvjpf yourbackup.tar.bz2 -T backuplist.txt
-Mark
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:58 am, Meir Kriheli wrote:
> On Sund
On Sunday 09 March 2003 22:45, Jesse Jacobs wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to backup my system minus some dirs.
>
> I print to a file the files/dirs i'd like to skip
>
> mount /dev/hda1 /boot
> find /proc > /tar.test.txt
> find /exports >> /tar.test.txt
> tar -cvjpsPf -X /tar.test.txt /
Hello everyone,
I would like to backup my system minus some dirs.
I print to a file the files/dirs i'd like to skip
mount /dev/hda1 /boot
find /proc > /tar.test.txt
find /exports >> /tar.test.txt
tar -cvjpsPf -X /tar.test.txt / /exports/backup-full-090303.tar.bz2
But when the archive starts the
