tar as a file system backup

[William Muriithi]

Thanks guys

On 7 February 2012 11:26, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> You might want to exclude /dev, /sys, /mnt/, ... :-)
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>> From: William Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
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>> 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?
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>> tar -zcvpf /backup/servername-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz  /
>> --exclude=/backup --exclude=proc
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>> 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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