On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 06:24, Chris Bradford wrote: > I've been looking into backup solutions for my FC5 boxes over our > network to a file server. > > I came across netcat and tar, using the following commands: > > On the file server run: > > *nc -l 6060 > backup.tar.gz* > > > Then on the client run: > > *tar czvOPp --same-owner /* | nc 10.0.35.100 6060* > > > However this fails due to files in use (i.e the '/proc/' folder) so what > I want to know is what I would need to do in order to create a full, > working backup. > > Any ideas? The quick fix for a one-off copy is to do each filesystem separately so you won't wander into /proc or mounted nfs or iso filesystems, so add the --one-file-system option to tar and repeat for each filesystem you want (df or mount will show the list). It's also easier to use ssh instead of netcat since you can do it all from one end although there is some overhead for encryption: tar -f - .... |ssh fileserver 'cat >filename' But, if you are doing this more than once, look at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ which will completely automate the copies, use compression and duplicate linking to save space, and give you a nice web interface for restores. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
