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I create a tarball of each separate directory
under /, such as usr.tar.gz, var.tar.gz, etc...
tar ="Tape ARchive", except that the CDROM
recorder is a lot more reliable than mag-tape.
Just be sure that your boot/root rescue disk
has the GNU tar version, so that you can gunzip
and extract in one step. It's a bitch having
to gunzip to disk, and then restoring from a
possibly huge tar file.
Check out crcd-1.18, btw. It will create
an "el torito" bootable CD, but with
twice the ramdisk size of Tom's RTBT. You
can append all the tarballs to it to make
a really nice, reliable image of your
machine.
Regards,
Paul
FWIW, the the complete (compressed) set of
tarballs, including /home, for my office
machine is only about 275 MB.
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Jason Helfman wrote:
>
> So I take it that it is just better to create tarballs of your backups
> and then make images of those.
>
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:42:11PM -0500, Jim Harvey thus spat:
> | Jason Helfman wrote:
> | >
> | > I am just using xcdroast and mastering an image from the filesystem. Is
> | > this not recommended?
> | >
> | > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:12:58AM +0000, Jim Harvey thus spat:
> | > | Jason Helfman wrote:
> | > | >
> | > | > I have noticed that writing to cdrw is no problem, however doing a
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