On Wednesday 12 April 2006 23:14, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > I do something like this: > > for x in /*; do > if [ ${x} != "/usr" ]; then > tar zcf ${x}.tar ${x} > fi > done > > for x in /usr/*; do > tar zcf /usr_`basename ${x}`.tar ${x} > done > > Then you save those files to another medium [i.e. cd, or another host > or hard drive or something] >
tar -cf /dev/st0 / --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev and after mkfs tar -xf /dev/st0 that is, what big tapedrives are made for ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list