How to tar /

[Steffen Kluge]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 16:20 +1000, 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.

Give Mondo a try (http://www.mondorescue.org/), it is excellent. The
only way to cleanly cope with live filesystems is taking a snapshot and
backing it up. This requires you to use LVM and have enough disk space
to store the diffs while the backup is running.

Cheers
Steffen.

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