tar as a file system backup

[William Park]

You might want to exclude /dev, /sys, /mnt/, ... :-)
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William



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> From: William Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:14:06 AM
> Subject: [TLUG]: tar as a file system backup
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> 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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