The question was:-- Does anyone know how to create a "tar ball" or backup of important partitions like var and usr to a location either on the server or onto another machine (like a windows machine)? --------- It was not regarding to take backup of windows partition. Please read properly than comment it. Nilesh -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list