Nick Gawronski wrote: > Hi, so what command would I run from the mount point where my USB > drive was mounted to only backup the local ext3 filesystem using tar > so the contents of the USB drive would not be included in my backup > and when I wanted to restore it I would be in the directory where the > USB drive was mounted and would mount my system on another mount point > what would I type to do the restoration? Hi, Try this: man tar tar --help Seriously, that's why we have man pages. Even most rescue CDs include them and they generally answer your questions. I'll give you a clue though. You want to have it create a file and not write to tape. I know of no easy way to generate the archive, split it, copy it, cat it and extract unless you have an extra partition somewhere. Instead, a better option might be mondo. I know nothing about it and can't comment on accessibility, but it looks like exactly what you want. I intend to look into it later. It's in Debian Etch but I don't know about Gentoo or live CDs. There is also a boot disk called mindi but again I don't know about accessibility. http://www.mondorescue.org/ If you try it, let me know how it works.
