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From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: making a backup of my linux filesystem with tar and bz2
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:06:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090101030613.GA11134@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EEB4420FDA04CF8BFE85C320BD672E0@chihuahuad1>

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Provided that doing the backup while not booted into the system you
want to back up isn't an issue for you, I'd say partition image fits
all the criteria you specified nicely. http://www.partimage.org

Greg


On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 01:10:19AM -0600, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I was wanting to backup my linux system running debian unstable so I 
> can keep a backup off of my system before I start installing lots of 
> software I want to be able to quickly restore to a usable state with out 
> reinstalling everything.  I want to make a backup of just one partition 
> as I have linux on one partition and will be saving the backup to an USB 
> flash drive that will be mounted as well.  What I don't want to happen is 
> for the tar program to also backup all mount points and their contents 
> but I do want it to backup the directories on my ext3 filesystem and the 
> directories for the mount points so when I restore the backup there will 
> be empty directories for my USB flash drives and not directories with all 
> of the contents from the drive when the backup was made.  What would be 
> the best command to do this and use bzip2 with the minus 9 compression 
> option and preserve permitions and directory structure? 
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Nick Gawronski
 ` Gregory Nowak [this message]
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Nick Gawronski
 ` Tony Baechler
   ` Nick Stockton
     ` Nick Gawronski
       ` Tony Baechler

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