If I did a
tar zcvf whole.tar
will this back up the whole dadgum drive. And if so, how do you untar on a
new drive? Or do you reinstall linix and then untar over all the files?
I appreciate your help and I am trying to learn this under the gun.
The RocNet Monster
RocSoft, Inc.
915 Lyttleton St
Camden SC 29020
803 713-3433
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: Many questions??
>> How do you prepare for a catastrophe? How is the best way to backup your
>> linux system? Can you preserve partitions? Can you DriveCopy or some
other
>> utility?
>
>Do a 'man dump'
>
>or you could so what I do and just pack everything up in .tar.gz files and
>throw 'em on some sort of medium (I use a zip drive).
>
>> I have a tape drive inside a Win95 machine, what is the exact command to
>> qzip and tar and entire drive for such a catastrophe?
>
>tar zcvf /usr.tar /usr
>
>should tar and gzip your entire /usr directory into /usr.tar
>
>> One more question: What would cause named to stop? And then not restart
>
>Sorry, don't know about that one.
>
>Good Luck
>
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