Re: [cobalt-developers] Backups - NOT Newbie

["Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If i use tar (independently from the backup CGI) and specify my path as "/"
will my output file be a complete backup of my entire hard drive? If I
needed to restore from scratch, could I use the restore CD then uncompress
my tar to get back all of my customizations (like MySQL installations, perl
modules, etc. etc.) ?

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Backups - Newbie


> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:30:54PM -0400, Kevin D wrote:
> > Am I right to assume that permissions are not backed up along with a
full
> > backup??
>
> In the backup.cgi on my RaQ2 w/ OS Upgrade 3.0 -- I find that
> the backup command is 'tar czpP --no-recursion --file-from ..'
> this will keep permissions and absolute paths as well as
> compress the newly created archive.
>
> --
> Robert G. Fisher                  NEOCOM Microspecialists Inc.
> Senior System Engineer            (540) 666-9533 x 116
>
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