Re: backing up and rebuilding the kernel

2001-03-30 Thread Rich Puhek
Look into doing something like: tar -clzvf /home/somedir/My_backup.tar.gz /* The "-l" ("el" not "one") option will keep tar from trying to move off to another filesystem. You might want to leave off the -z from the options to skip compressing the archive (name it My_backup.tar then). You've got a

Re: backing up and rebuilding the kernel

2001-03-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi! On Fri, Mar 30, 2001, JACKSON, DEAN wrote: > Right I have just spent the last 3 evenings building a debian server (much > to my fiancés disgust) > it has 2 hard drives a 2gb and a 18gb all the system files are mounted on > the 2 gb(sda1) /home is mounted on the 18gb(sdb2) (swap is sda1) >

backing up and rebuilding the kernel

2001-03-30 Thread JACKSON, DEAN
Right I have just spent the last 3 evenings building a debian server (much to my fiancés disgust) it has 2 hard drives a 2gb and a 18gb all the system files are mounted on the 2 gb(sda1) /home is mounted on the 18gb(sdb2) (swap is sda1) what is the easiest way to back up the system files (2gb s