system backup

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Taavi Burns wrote:

> 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.

     It's whatever you call it; tar.bz2 is usual, but I have also seen
     .tbz2. You could call it .tarnish if you liked.

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

     Permissions are always preserved; the -p option preserves them on
     extraction.

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