[Gllug] tar.gz

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Gilbert [mailto:tom at linuxbrit.co.uk]
> 
> You most certainly can copy files that are in use :)
> 
> Use tar or cp -a to make sure you don't have problems with file
> permissions/ownerships etc.

I tried to run the following as root. If this worked it would be more than
sufficient for what I want. There is not an awful lot of stuff on the Debian
box but its the closest thing I have ever had to a decent set-up so I want
to keep it. No doubt someone will find a flaw in the following.

$tar czvf /backup.tar.gz /

> 
> Anyway all I usually back up /home, /etc, /usr/local, /var/mail (if
> applicable) and I dump the output of dpkg --get-selections. You could
> then restore all of /usr and every app you had before the backup by
> taking that dump and catting it to dpkg --set-selections and running
> apt-get dselect-upgrade.

If the whole drive was backed up should I need to worry about the packages
if things went Pete tong?

Harry


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