tar -cprf etc.tar.gz /etc may work a little better. The -r switch says
recursive backup which gets everything under the /etc directory and the
-p switch preserves all of those attributes.
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, John G Heim wrote:
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:02:48
From: John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
<speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: upgrade to jessie, what to backup
Grub failed on the 2 upgrades I have done so far. I'm way behind in
getting to it and both times I was in such a rush I just let 'er fly.
Bad idea. I ended up having to boot from grml and re-install grub. There
was probably some kind of warning during the upgrade itself but I must
have missed it.
The only other bad thing was that going from wheezy to jessie on our web
server upgraded us from apache2.2 to apache2.4 and apache wouldn't
restart. I had to fix several things in the config files. If I had it to
do over again, i'd probably do apache2 and grup2 first, and then do the
dist-upgrade.
On 11/05/2015 12:38 AM, Tom Fowle wrote:
Planning to upgrade from wheezie to jessie.
Backing up to a usb external hard drive, I've done everything under /home
and /etc.
Is there anything else I should backup? or other things to be aware of
before or during the upgrade?
Thanks
tom Fowle
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