Hi, I keep on finding myself wanting to play with new things etc. Instead of having to reinstall my system ever time I end up breaking something (sorry, I'm a perfectionist who feels my system must be perfect!), can I just back up my entire system with tar. The first question is: what is the syntax for this? Secondly, where will the tar file go. What I mean is, if the command were: tar cf /* ./backup.tar then won't the program get into a loop since I'm backing up the current directory, but also continually writing data to this directory? Equally, if I mount a second partition under /mnt and save the tar file to /mnt/backup.tar won't it try and backup the mounted partition also? I'd be greatful if anyone has the answer to my question. Thanks, Saqib -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20011112/86b488b4/attachment.html>
