[K12OSN] tar to take an image for checkpointing
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Sep 5 23:43:30 UTC 2006
Matt Oquist wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:19:28 -0400
>> From: "Robert Moskowitz" <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>> Subject: [K12OSN] Got to rebulid -- how to take an image for checkpointing
>>
>> So how can I take a real good snap shot of my drive. I would want
>> something like GHOST where I would boot from CD and image to a USB
>> harddrive or network drive....
>>
>
> With a (p)OS like Windows(TM), you need a "ghosting" program because
> the system has loads of secret binary data that keep it from working
> if you just copy the filesystem contents of the OS to another system.
> Thankfully, Linux is part of the UNIX tradition and the entire system
> is portable.
>
> 1. To create a complete, compressed, ready-to-roll system backup on a remote system:
> $ cd /
> $ tar czvf - / | ssh user at remotehost "cat > systembackup.tgz"
This hung on /media/cdrom
So I need a -T option with a file listing the desired diretories?
Or is there a way to exclude directories?
doing a ls -ls / produces:
8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:45 bin
2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 5 10:36 boot
0 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 5440 Sep 5 11:11 dev
16 drwxr-xr-x 83 root root 12288 Sep 5 11:11 etc
8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 home
8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 initrd
8 drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:06 lib
16 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 25 08:58 lost+found
8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:11 media
8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 06:46 misc
8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 mnt
8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 opt
0 dr-xr-xr-x 94 root root 0 Sep 5 07:09 proc
8 drwxr-x--- 15 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:57 root
16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Sep 5 11:07 sbin
8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 25 12:59 selinux
8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 srv
0 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Sep 5 07:09 sys
8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 25 13:20 tftpboot
8 drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 Sep 5 19:30 tmp
8 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:40 usr
8 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Aug 25 13:20 var
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