upgrade to jessie, what to backup

[Tony Baechler]

Are you sure about this?  Having just checked a backup of /etc I made with 
the commands I gave:

cd /
tar cf etc.tar etc

I see that it seems to recurse into all of my subdirectories, such as 
/etc/dpkg.d and /etc/muttrc.d.  What am I missing here?  Also, the file 
permissions are correct.  Do you mean the ACLs?  If so, would they be 
important to preserve on a single user system?  Does tar not preserve ACLs 
automatically?  I know it has the ability to, but I don't use ACLs on the 
servers I administrate since I'm the only user.

On 11/5/2015 8:12 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> tar -cprf etc.tar.gz /etc may work a little better.  The -r switch says
> recursive backup which gets everything under the /etc directory and the -p
> switch preserves all of those attributes.
>