Best way to backup a specific drive?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:48 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I am preparing to backup my root drive in preparation
> for installing f7.  What is the best way to do this?
> 
> I have in /dev/hda as:
> 
> /boot = /dev/hda1
> /       = /dev/hda2
> 
> I have backed up /boot with: tar zcvpf /boot.tgz /boot
> 
> But have get to figure out how to get /dev/hda2 backed up without
> picking up the other drives mounted on /
> 
> Of course, I am saving the backups on a different drive so that I can
> use specific files I want to restore or refer to when rebuilding the new
> f7 installation.
> 
> Thanks!
> Dan
I am not clear why you would want to backup /boot. I just backup my home
directory, /etc and /root , using tar.
When I untar I use the -k option that does not replace any files on the
drive with the same name.

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