From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 18:23:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72A037B40A for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f9G1NeV62973; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:23:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: nascar24@home.nl ("Marcel DIjk") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TAR Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:23:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1t2nst0j84vq84isgdnl930c80q0umbmgi@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:42:55 +0000 (UTC), in = sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hello, > >How does one backup all the contents (files, directories etc) of = /network to a file named backup.tar.gz in /backup?? > >Thanks, i'm puzzled, > tar -cpzf /backup/backup.tar.gz /network c =3D create p =3D preserve ownership and permissions z =3D comprez f =3D file Have a look at the man pages for more info. Also, when looking for = answers to common questions like this, search through the archives. They have all been answered before. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message