[BBLISA] System Backup thoughts and questions...

[David Allan]

Hmm...perhaps it doesn't work on all *nix variants, but I actually tried 
that before I posted it (on Fedora 10), and it did what I would expect, 
created /backup/directory/source/directory/<contents>

I'll bear that in mind, though.

Dave


On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Kathryn Smith wrote:

>
> --- On Thu, 1/8/09, David Allan <dave at dpallan.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> tar cf - /source/directory | ( cd /backup/directory ; tar
>> xvf - )
>>
>
> This is probabably obvious, but having shot myself in the foot with it in the past, I can't let this go by without pointing it out. If you try this approach, be absolutely sure you use
>
> tar cf - ./source/directory
>
> The example here looks like you're using a full, absolute path name starting at root for your source directory. If you write that using a pipe, it goes right back where it started, not to /backup/directory you've just changed into.
>
> Been there, done it to myself, spent a very long weekend recovering the file system.
>
> Kathryn
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