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From: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com>
To: Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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Subject: Re: Backup using TAR
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smacked into the keyboard previously by owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG:

 >Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:26:36 -0600
 >From: Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
 >To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
 >Subject: Backup using TAR
 >
 >I am experimenting with tar as a mechanism to do a full backup of my
 >system.
 >I would like to backup the entire system to file which will later be copied
 >to cd (roughly 450MB).
 >
 >Here is the command I'm using:
 >
 >tar  cpf /usr/archive/full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar
 >--directory / --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/mnt
 >--exclude=/usr/archive --exclude=/proc .
 >
 >What other directories should I exclude?
 >Are there any other recommended parameters?
 >
 >I've looked at the tar manpage but it is a little overwhelming.
 >
 >
 >
 >_________________________________
 >
 >Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo.
 >Gerhardt Information Technologies
 >

Look at this tutorial I wrote on bsdvault.net:
http://bsdvault.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=79

Scott Nolde
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