I read somewhere that it was very easy to make a complete backup of a Linux
system. Is it possible to do this without 3rd party software? If so what is
the command.
Thanks, Rob

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Rob <bucfan11SPAM@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I read somewhere that it was very easy to make a complete backup of a Linux

Of course. Why wouldn't it be?

> system. Is it possible to do this without 3rd party software? If so what is

Yes.

> the command.

Any one you prefer. Where would you like to copy it to? One would
suspect that you need a short fast book on unix, and chapter 1 ...

Peter

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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:06:02 -0500, Rob wrote:

> I read somewhere that it was very easy to make a complete backup of a Linux
> system.

A one-time copy:

cd /
cp -a "everything except backup and proc" /backup

This assumes that a suitable file system has been mounted on /backup.

For incremental back-ups:

rsync -a --delete ...

will be more efficient.

Bob T.

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On 12/04/2002 10:06 PM, Rob wrote:
> I read somewhere that it was very easy to make a complete backup of a Linux
> system. Is it possible to do this without 3rd party software? If so what is
> the command.
> Thanks, Rob
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I've been backing up by tar'ing everything into one archive, and store
it on another drive.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/l...ver-backup.html

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Rob wrote:
> I read somewhere that it was very easy to make a complete backup of a Linux
> system. Is it possible to do this without 3rd party software? If so what is
> the command.
> Thanks, Rob
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You can use 'tar' to back up entire directories, or 'dump' to back up
entire partitions. See their man pages for details.

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In article <slrnautijk.b2b.BobT@linus.cs.queensu.ca>, Bob Tennent wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:06:02 -0500, Rob wrote:
>
> > I read somewhere that it was very easy to make a complete backup of a Linux
> > system.
>
> A one-time copy:
>
> cd /
> cp -a "everything except backup and proc" /backup
>
> This assumes that a suitable file system has been mounted on /backup.
>
> For incremental back-ups:
>
> rsync -a --delete ...
>
> will be more efficient.
>
> Bob T.

Just for the sake of completeness, you could also do incremental backups
with cp:

cp -au

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