system backup

[Taavi Burns]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:23:13PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> 
> > You can pipe tar over ssh to a file elsewhere.  ie:
> >
> > tar -czlf - /* | ssh user at otherhost 'cat > /path/dell.tgz'
> 
> Yeah, what Lennart said :)  If you can use j instead of z to use bzip2.
> This produces a .tar.bz file.

I think that's tar.bz2, but yeah.  It gets better compression ratios.

You might also want to use p, since that will preserve permissions (a VERY good
thing for backups of a whole machine!).

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