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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    --exclude=/media doesn't exclude /media... any ideas?
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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    Quote Originally Posted by moore.bryan View Post
    --exclude=/media doesn't exclude /media... any ideas?
    The solution is in my last post this thread on page 21! That is, it worked for me; I was able to back up excluding media.
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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    i was hoping that would be the response... i read your post, but wasn't sure it covered everything i might want to exclude. any ideas why it works?
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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    Quote Originally Posted by moore.bryan View Post
    i was hoping that would be the response... i read your post, but wasn't sure it covered everything i might want to exclude. any ideas why it works?
    Well, I sure wish I could rant and boast about it telling you...you know,man...I did this and you just have to that because of this ant that!!
    with tons of codes!!!

    The fact is it's sheer luck!! For some reason, I did a typo (/) at the end of the line!=D>
    Let me know how it went. Oh boy, about the codes, maybe in a couple of decades!! Good luck.

    Check this too:
    http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partimage (among other advantages, you can backup a partition over 4G)
    Last edited by xyz; September 14th, 2006 at 04:05 PM.
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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    sometimes it's better to be lucky than good...

    thanks, again.
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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    one small tip, plz empty your trash folders, i forgot to do mine, and it had a 200 mb home video, so wasted that much space and time.
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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    I want to write the backups to DVD using cdbackup. I also want to do use tar's incremental backup feature to save storage space? Will this work?
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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    That was very impressive! Very fast!

    For some reason it didn't back /var even though I didn't exclude it?

    I unmounted my windows drives by typing
    #
    in front of their entry in fstab and rebooting.

    I excluded /tmp because it seemed to have my windows drive in it in a folder
    gconfd-dennisx

    Was that ok – or will it make the restore go bad if I ever have to?

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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    Quote Originally Posted by xyz View Post
    i was hoping that would be the response... i read your post, but wasn't sure it covered everything i might want to exclude. any ideas why it works?
    Well, I sure wish I could rant and boast about it telling you...you know,man...I did this and you just have to that because of this ant that!!
    with tons of codes!!!
    It is just a matter of tar's version 8)

    Maybe we should just ask the first poster to edit his post.. people just keep asking that

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    Re: Howto: Backup and restore your system!

    I've just backed up and wondering if the file size is right because it seems small, my used space is around about 8Gb and my backup in .tgz is 2.1 GB I didn't see any errors but it seems small, is it just compressed really well or is something probably wrong?

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