tar as a file system backup
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 8 13:04:42 UTC 2012
William Muriithi wrote:
> 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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Well, tar has been used to back up systems for many years. Why do you
think it will fail? As always with back ups, make sure you can restore.
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