Re: Backing up with tar

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

Hi Proborst

, On 08-Nov-01, you wrote:

> On Thursday 08 November 2001 14.08, you wrote:
>> Can someone tell me what I would need to type to archive these dirs to a
>> .tar file of my affs partition please?

> I believe 'tar cvzf /mnt/affs/backup.tgz /home /etc' should do the trick.

Yes thanks .

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