| 1 |
Neil Bothwick wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:48:38 -0600, Dale wrote: |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
>> OK. I downloaded Kdar so far. It was smaller and I'm on dial-up. Does |
| 6 |
>> these programs preserve file permissions? |
| 7 |
>> |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
> Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the |
| 10 |
> CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized chunks and kdar can |
| 11 |
> (AFAIR) write them to disc. dar also creates an index of what's in which |
| 12 |
> file and writes this to the first and last backup files. |
| 13 |
> |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
May need a little more info on this archive part. If I use this to back |
| 17 |
up my whole system and then lets say the hard drive fails completely. I |
| 18 |
can just untar or unzip to restore the system right? I have some data |
| 19 |
to back up but I may use this to do a system back-up too. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
While I am at it, if I do a system back up, do I need to worry about |
| 22 |
backing up /proc and /sys? From my understanding the kernel generates |
| 23 |
these when it boots up. Just curious about what I really need to back |
| 24 |
up. Oh, what about /dev too. I use udev and have the tarball set to no. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
Thanks |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
Dale |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
:-) :-) :-) |
Archives