On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:19:56PM -0500, Matt C wrote: > > My command is below > > > > tar -civf /media/administration.tar.bz2 /home/administration/ > > That command creates an uncompressed tar file, not a bz2 file. Try this: > > tar cvf - /home/administration | bzip2 -c > /media/administration.tar.bz2 Better still: tar -cjvf /media/administration.tar.bz2 /home/administration Why don't you try to use dump/restore instead? I do the following: I periodically create a level 0 dump, then I do level 1-14 dumps, which I put into a /media/backup/DVD directory until I get close to the limit of space on the DVD. I just add the latest dumps to the DVD (multi-session) and that's it! Read "man dump" and "man restore". The "star" command also has some true incremental backup features. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan, | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | my beautiful Queen. | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
