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System restored from a tar file. Will the previously excluded folders be deleted after the restoration?

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http://askubuntu.com – 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. Now I want to restore the system drive but keep the data drive as it is. I should execute: tar xvpfz backup.tgz -C / From the how-to instructions, I was given the impression that the excluded fold (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 08/19/2012

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

I am trying to create a tar backup script.

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 /

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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 have written a rsync-based system backup for my Linux system. The aim is to be able to redeploy the system entirely from the saves, so I don't only backup homedirs. I have excluded a few top-level directories from the backup: /proc, /sys, /mnt, /tmp.

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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 /