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yes i did exclude the boot. didn't matter including cause it'll be recreated when i reinstall. it's been a couple months since i had this issue, and since have been running with a non-encrypted...

hold on i'm confused... i actually do back everything up as root, and then restore as root. am i missing something? (so glad i was able to pull my home directory out of the archive... whew i'm...

both my root and swap partitions are encrypted.

thanks,

ephman

hi,

i wish that was the case. however, just as i suspected the restore did not go so well. i never backup the /boot, and then fixed the fstab file. however on the reboot, not only did i get a...

hi,

so i have a bit of a concern that i might be way off on, and your help figuring this out would be appreciated. ok i have 4 partitions on my drive. 1 for xp, a boot partition, an encrypted...

are you backing up media like mp3's, movies, etc...? that could do it. i know it's all relative, however, my back up is only 4gig (i leave out all the media).

thanks for the bandwidth,
ephman

hi,

is there anything to worry about my archive? this is the first time i've ever done this.

tar: /backup.tar.bz2: file changed as we read it
tar: --exclude=/proc: Cannot stat: No such file...