On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Look into what's called a "stage 4 backup": > http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_System_Backup_Script_(stage4) > > I've had to actually use it once, and it worked fine. It already excludes > the appropriate files: > > /dev > /lost+found > /mnt > /proc > /sys > /tmp > /usr/portage > /usr/src > /var/log > /var/tmp > > /var/db > /var/cache/edb > > It doesn't back up the MBR or the partition tables (primary or logical), > though you could edit the script to do that. > > -- > - Mark Shields
Thanks Mark. That looks interesting. I'm not clear about the process of actually making the backup. This get run on a live file system? I suppose the things it excludes if it does are the things that might be changing? - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
