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Linux backup using tar

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http://serverfault.com – Im new to linux backup. Im thinking of full system backup of my linux server using tar. I came up with the following code: tar -zcvpf /archive/fullbackup.tar.gz --exclude=/archive --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys --exclude=/tmp / and if in need of any hardware problem, restore it with cd / tar -zxpvf fullbackup.tar.gz But does my above code back up MBR and filesystem? Will the above code be enough to bring the same server back? Thanks (HowTos)

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Submitted by taskli on 02/14/2013

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I am trying to create a tar backup script.

help with tar 1 year 12 weeks ago

Hi,

One of the system that I have has lot of disk errors. To be safe, I want to backup the system in case of disaster. To backup the system, I did this tar command but it's also doing the NFS mount on the system. Please advice, how to exclude all the NFS mount point, and only tar the system itself.

I want to restore a complete tar backup of Ubuntu 12.04 with all my customizations, documents, installed software, etc. to a different machine.

I use a variant of the simple script below from the Community Ubuntu Documentation described

tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev /

I used it again on Ubuntu 12.04 and I saw some files from the /run being skipped by the script.

I have two hard drives--a system drive and a data drive. The path to the data drive is /storage. Following this post, I went to the root of my filesytem and executed the following command:

tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys --exclude=/storage /

Note that I excluded the data drive (--exclude=/storage) from the backup.

Bash out of control ? 2 years 44 weeks ago

Hi,

I created a system restore file.

code:

tar cvpzf sysrestor.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sysrestor.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys /

And hav tried out:

ctl alt F4

root@ desktop:# tar -cxvpfz sysrestor.tgz /

Everything I read says that to exclude .svn and .htaccess and other hidden files when creating a tar archive, use the --exclude=".*" pattern.

When I try, I get an empty archive. When I leave out the --exclude long option everything gets archived.

Here's the full command I'm using: tar -czvf ../_migrate/archive_2012-05-07.tgz --exclude=".*" ./*

Hi,

I'm trying to run a command from an ubuntu howto page, but there's something wrong with it that i dont understand?

Can you point it out please?

Thanks

root@nnjond-desktop:/# tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz -–exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev /

I have a old laptop I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on.