On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:10:17PM -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> After I noticed that, I deleted my message from the
> server to not waste anyone's time. Apparently it stayed on long enough for
> your patient answer. Thanks.
Interesting, you are using the GMANE gateway... of course since this is
a
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:04:37 -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the
> following location:
>
> /mnt/back
>
> When I try it uncompressed with
>
> tar cvf /mnt/back/20031130 ~
>
> it succeeds.
>
> But when I try to do it co
Bob_parker wrote:
> - Original Message
> From: Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: tar question
> Date: 01/12/03 13:22
>
>>
>> I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the
>> following location:
>>
>>
- Original Message
From: Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tar question
Date: 01/12/03 13:22
>
> I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the
> following location:
>
> /mnt/back
>
> When I try it uncom
Ashish Ariga wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:47:29PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote:
>> A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO
>> device. That device is registered in the system as
>>
>> /dev/sda
>>
>> and is mounted on
>>
>> /mnt/mo
>>
>> Neither of
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:47:29PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO
> device. That device is registered in the system as
>
> /dev/sda
>
> and is mounted on
>
> /mnt/mo
>
> Neither of the following attempts success
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 19:23, Abner Gershon wrote:
> This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I
> have consulted as well as the man page and I can't
> figure out how to use tar to back up my /home
> directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my
> other hard drive /dev/hdb7.
Other p
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Abner Gershon wrote:
> This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I have consulted
> as well as the man page and I can't figure out how to use tar to back
> up my /home directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my other
> hard drive /dev/hdb7.
>
> I accidentaly
Hi,
* Abner Gershon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020618 12:23]:
> Anyway I change to my home directory, "cd /home". Then
> type "tar -cf /mnt/abner" (I previously mounted
> /dev/hdb7 to /mnt)
The argumen tafter the f needs to be the distination file.
eg.
tar -cf /mnt/abner.tar abner
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:23:00PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I
> have consulted as well as the man page and I can't
> figure out how to use tar to back up my /home
> directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my
> other hard drive /dev/hdb
martin f krafft declaimed:
> > | > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> > | > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
> > | > | causing recursion?
>
> why would you want to backup /tmp???
>
The question was how to back up to a file _in_ /tmp
> | > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> | > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
> | > | causing recursion?
why would you want to backup /tmp???
--
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:50:36AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:08:35PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| > | causing recursion?
| >
| > tar -
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:08:35PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
> | causing recursion?
>
> tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]*
>
> tar acts recursively automatically, but i
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with
| causing recursion?
tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]*
tar acts recursively automatically, but it is bad to try and include
the directory you are writing the tar fi
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