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On Friday 04 November 2005 01:44, Richard Watson wrote: |
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> Hi ... I've just spent ages compiling my laptop. I'm really happy with |
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> the result ... So fast ... |
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> What I want to is create a directory called /backup and then create a |
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> tarball using the command |
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> # tar -zcvf /backup/mylaptop.tar /[all directories] except /backup (as I |
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> don't want to go in circles). |
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> I'm then going to copy off the resulting tarball to my server in case my |
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> laptop dies (I'd rather not have to recompile everything). Does this |
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> sound OK?If I ever had to restore I would copy the file to / and run the |
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> command. |
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> # tar -zxvf mylaptop.tar |
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> Thanks, Richard |
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you need to --exclude /proc, or you'll run into problems. |
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You should exclude /sys, /dev/, /tmp and /var/run |
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