tar as a file system backup

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2012-02-08, at 8:07, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> William Park wrote:
>> You might want to exclude/dev, /sys, /mnt/, ...:-)
> 
> Of course he'll want to include /dev/null.  ;-)
> 

/dev/zero compresses really well ...
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