Bonno Bloksma <b.blok...@tio.nl> writes: > Hi, > > My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config files. Just > before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to have a quick and > dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run files like dhcp.leases > etc. So what I do is a simple: > tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude > /proc --exclude /sys > A while ago I noticed I needed to add the /sys directory to that exclusion. > > Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel > 2.6.26-2-686 it seems my backup is running "forever" but maybe I'm just > impatient. ;-) > I am going to upgrade this system to Squeeze later today so the kernel will > probably end up being 2.6.32-5-686 at the end of the day. > > Bonno >
What I do is to tar just the root filesystem, not the stuff mounted on top of it. You can either use --one-file-system option, or bind mount root someplace else and to the tar there. I just tar everything, since it's not really that big. I have restored and booted root's saved this way and it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehtp5o0w....@aptiva.optonline.net
