[BBLISA] System Backup thoughts and questions...

[Kathryn Smith]

I'm dating myself here. You could definitely do it to yourself on BSD, SunOS, and single digit Solaris versions. I haven't tried it on any Linux variants. Maybe they're more idiot-proof. :-)

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--- On Thu, 1/8/09, David Allan <dave at dpallan.com> wrote:

> From: David Allan <dave at dpallan.com>
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] System Backup thoughts and questions...
> To: "Kathryn Smith" <aishabintjamil at yahoo.com>
> Cc: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 5:14 PM
> 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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