How to tar /

[Mike McCarty]

david walcroft wrote:
> I want to compress my whole [/] system to burn on to a dvd-r dl,my sys 
> is about 10.5GB,what is the best way to achieve this when my sys is 
> 'live' and constantly changes.
> 
>   Thanks   david
> 

First, of course, you  have to decide what actually needs to
be in your backup (I presume that's the goal). You don't want,
for example, /dev or /proc in there.

Second, you just asked a question which has no really good answer.
So, you'll get a lot of answers, no one of which is "the best
way".

YMMV

Mike
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