Re: Backing up with tar

[Glenn H. <ing...@st...>]

Hi,
John Lord wrote:

>Hello,
>
>
>With all the problems I have been having again lately, I want to back up my
>/etc and /home dirs with tar. Perhaps this time it will make it easier to set
>up again should I have too.
>
>Can someone tell me what I would need to type to archive these dirs to a .tar
>file of my affs partition please?


tar -czvf tarfile.tar.gz /etc /home


>I assume that when I need to restore them, I would use the usual tar -xzvf
><tar.file> and that would write them back in the correct place?

yes.

- glenn