From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (linserver.romuald.net.eu.org [63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D068109FB for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:06:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 12204 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Dec 2008 20:06:13 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:06:13 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: making a backup of my linux filesystem with tar and bz2 Message-ID: <20090101030613.GA11134@localhost.localdomain> References: <3EEB4420FDA04CF8BFE85C320BD672E0@chihuahuad1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EEB4420FDA04CF8BFE85C320BD672E0@chihuahuad1> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:06:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklcMyUACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCcLACdExoEofwHFh+8J+h2kRtSkX1Y 66MAoLezayycGg+c4TexZiBEfruC668F =tQX5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----