On Friday 06 April 2007 09:56:05 am Mike Burger wrote:
> Retry your tar, but this time, create a file called "excludes", and put
> /sys, /proc, etc into it. Then use -X /path/to/excludes as a parameter on
> your tar command line.
I'd suggest you use rsync instead of tar to backup your disk. It is very
efficient and you can see whats there and repeat the rsync and only pick up
new changes.
Check the docs, but the simplest would be for example:
rsync -a /home /var/lib/mysql /mnt/backups
assuming you want to back up /home and /var/lib/mysql into /mnt/backups.
