From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com (dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com [68.99.120.48]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4311A10AA0 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:29:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.30] (really [70.166.17.50]) by dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.05 201-2131-130-106-20070212) with ESMTP id <20090101132906.BROX4531.dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com@[192.168.0.30]> for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:29:06 -0500 Message-ID: <495CC52E.6020100@baechler.net> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:29:18 -0800 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: making a backup of my linux filesystem with tar and bz2 References: <3EEB4420FDA04CF8BFE85C320BD672E0@chihuahuad1> In-Reply-To: <3EEB4420FDA04CF8BFE85C320BD672E0@chihuahuad1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 13:29:06 -0000 Keep in mind that most USB drives are formatted as FAT32. That means that you can't have archives over 2 GB in size. Unless you have a means of splitting and recombining files like an extra partition or your filesystem will never grow above 2 GB, tar and bz2 probably won't work with USB. You could try backing up to a network drive with Samba or similar. I'm fairly sure that grml has smbclient and support for mounting smb shares but I don't know about Gentoo. 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 > >