making a backup of my linux filesystem with tar and bz2

[Gregory Nowak]

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I don't usually reply to my posts, but I forgot to mention that if you
want to use tar, but not have it archive file systems other than the /
directory, just umount those file systems before starting the tar job.

Greg


On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 08:06:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Provided that doing the backup while not booted into the system you
> want to back up isn't an issue for you, I'd say partition image fits
> all the criteria you specified nicely. http://www.partimage.org
> 
> Greg
> 
> 


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