12 Jun
2008
12 Jun
'08
10:08 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Marc Deop i Argemí <damnshock@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 12 June 2008 22:41:24 Allie Daneman wrote:
So I just want to tar up the whole box (small server)...can I just do this: tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz \ --directory / --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc --exclude=dev --exclude=sys .
Sorry if this a dumb question...I'm a Linux newb coming from BSD's ;)
I'm not an expert but you should be able to do that :)
You may want to look into using dar for this, as a giant tar is going to be silly big.