How to tar /

Fri Nov 18 06:34:54 UTC 2005

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.

Boot off of a CD.
But why do you want to do this?

I can understand archiving /home and /etc - and some stuff in /var
(databases etc. - though databases really should be dumped before
backup) - but why / ?