Keep in mind that most USB drives are formatted as FAT32. That means that you can't have archives over 2 GB in size. Unless you have a means of splitting and recombining files like an extra partition or your filesystem will never grow above 2 GB, tar and bz2 probably won't work with USB. You could try backing up to a network drive with Samba or similar. I'm fairly sure that grml has smbclient and support for mounting smb shares but I don't know about Gentoo. Nick Gawronski wrote: > Hi, I was wanting to backup my linux system running debian unstable so > I can keep a backup off of my system before I start installing lots of > software I want to be able to quickly restore to a usable state with > out reinstalling everything. I want to make a backup of just one > partition as I have linux on one partition and will be saving the > backup to an USB flash drive that will be mounted as well. What I > don't want to happen is for the tar program to also backup all mount > points and their contents but I do want it to backup the directories > on my ext3 filesystem and the directories for the mount points so when > I restore the backup there will be empty directories for my USB flash > drives and not directories with all of the contents from the drive > when the backup was made. What would be the best command to do this > and use bzip2 with the minus 9 compression option and preserve > permitions and directory structure? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
