[arch-general] Basic tar backup ?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Marc Deop i Argemí <damnshock at 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.