tar as a file system backup

[William Muriithi]

Morning pals

I am planning to repurpose a server and I am kind of hesitant of
reformatting it as I am not very certain if I got everything backup.

How  safe is it to assume this command has compressed and archived
everything on the old system?

tar -zcvpf /backup/servername-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz  /
--exclude=/backup --exclude=proc

Just may feel a little more confident if I get a second eye saying all
seem fine as long as tar exit with 0 flag

William
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