On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 00:20, david walcroft wrote: > I want to compress my whole [/] system to burn on to a dvd-r dl,my sys > is about 10.5GB,what is the best way to achieve this when my sys is > 'live' and constantly changes. Typically, the files that change are not ones required for system operation, so you aren't likely to have trouble running after a restore from a tar image of the live system. If you have databases or similar programs that need to be saved in a consistent way, shut them down or use their own online dump mechanism first. I usually make separate runs per filesystem, using the --one-file-system option and repeating for each mount point. This automatically excludes /proc and avoids walking into any isos or network mount points that happen to be active. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
