Re: Backing up with tar

[John L. <lor...@uk...>]

Hello Glenn

Hi Glenn

, On 09-Nov-01, you wrote:

> 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

Thanks.

>> 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.

Good

Regards
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