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How can i make a backup of my system??? I have not any tape unit, i would like to put my backup in a file on a partition of a disc mounted on my machine, is it possible? Which are the most important system directories to save in the backup???
Tar would be the default tool,
as for importance: it depends on
what kind of distro you're running,
how much stuff you compiled up
from source, how much is pre-packaged
and configured to defaults by the installation...
If it's an RPM based bootable distro you
probably only want to backup your
/etc
/home
/root
:)
If it's lots of effort that you put into it
compiling stuff up also save the targets
of your installations, like eg
/opt
/usr/local
Thanks to all , i like the "tar" way.
Is possible to make a partial backup of a directory including some subdirectories and excluding other subdirectories???
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