Re: Backing up with tar

[Jean-Paul P. <st...@cl...>]

Hello Glenn

On 09-nov-01, you wrote:


> 
> 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?
> 

If you use the command :

tar -cvzf toto.tar /etc

it will be very difficult to "untar" in another place, I would advise you
to "tar" with :

cd /etc
tar -cvzf /tmp/toto.tar ./*

After that it is possible to "untar" your files in another place with the
command :

mkdir /anotherplace
cd /anotherplace
tar -xvzf /tmp/toto.tar

All your files will be in "/anotherplace" and you can examine all of them
and copy or move any of them in the original place.

Regards
-- 

    Jean-Paul Pozzi

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