On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Marc Deop i Argemí <damnshock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2008 22:41:24 Allie Daneman wrote: >> So I just want to tar up the whole box (small server)...can I just do this: >> tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz \ >> --directory / --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc --exclude=dev --exclude=sys >> . >> >> Sorry if this a dumb question...I'm a Linux newb coming from BSD's ;) > > I'm not an expert but you should be able to do that :) You may want to look into using dar for this, as a giant tar is going to be silly big.
