SUMMARY: Tar filesystem backups

Thanks to Chris de Vidal, Brett Geer, and Carroll, Jim P.

Many people asked for more details, and why I wanted a tar on the same hard
drive. The reason is that I'm running Knoppix on a production server.
There's about 12 gigs used of the 110gig drive.  Another Hard drive is on
the way, but in the mean time I like to have a working backup of the entire
system (That's /, /cdrom, /KNOPPIX/, etc), because there are tons of
undocumented symlinks (And because of the funky way that Knoppix handles
symlinks in general)

Peer1 charges me $7/gig, so doing offsite daily backups isn't very cost
efficient

This script does a good enough job of getting everything, and leaving what
is useless.
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#!/bin/bash

tar cpfv /mnt/hda1/backups/`date -I`-full_backup.tar \
--exclude /mnt/hda1/backups \
--exclude /proc \
--exclude /dev \
--exclude /KNOPPIX \
--exclude /cdrom \
/
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Planned Purchase: O'Reilly's Unix Backup & Recovery;
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/index.html

Thankyou to everyone who helped out.

 - Jeremy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ambrose" <ambrose-pj/[email protected]>
To: <linuxmanagers-35TzE1X9F6582KRnZfj+bdi2O/[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 6:08 PM
Subject: Tar filesystem backups


> I want to tar/backup everything in / (ext3). I only have one hard drive at
the
> moment, and would like to keep an onsite backup, that is, keep the tgz on
the
> drive. What is the best way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   - Jeremy
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