Backing up system

[Roberto Ragusa]

GMS S wrote:
> Hi,
> Reading this:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087
> I ran this command from terminal being root
> 
> 
> tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys /

I suppose some excludes could have been replaced with
  --one-file-system

> But the last two lines from terminal.
> 
> 
> /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Something (not critical) has happened in the middle of the operation.
Since you backup a working system, this can easily happen.

You have to review all the output of the command if you want to know
what was wrong. Save the output to a log, as someone else advised you,
and then find it out.

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it