On 20/02/12 15:54, Rob Owens wrote:
I'd also exclude lost+found
If there's anything in there, then it could have been recovered from
anywhere on the filesystem, and could be valuable. I'd include it.
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On 02/20/2012 05:40 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> 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
Bonno Bloksma 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. S
I found this webpage useful for describing how to use tar for full backups:
http://www.aboutdebian.com/tar-backup.htm
Keith Ostertag
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Bonno Bloksma wrote:
>> > tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --excl
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> > tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude
> > /proc --exclude /sys
> >Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel
> >2.6.26-2-686 it seems my
Hey,
Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude
> /proc --exclude /sys
>Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686
>it seems my backup is running "forever"
I would suggest also excluding /dev, /tmp, /var/
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/b
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