[Gllug] tar.gz

[tet at accucard.com]

>No doubt someone will find a flaw in the following.
>
>$tar czvf /backup.tar.gz /

Well the obvious flaw is that you're trying to back everything up.
For a start, that will try and include things like /proc, which
you really don't want. You could either investigate GNU tar's
--exclude option, or just try and abck up the things you actually
need. For me, that's just:

	/local
	/etc
	/var/named

Everything I have that's not in a base install (home directories,
locally installed software, etc.) goes in /local. Note that I
used to use /usr/local for this, but too many things abuse that,
and it became difficult to maintain.

Tet

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