Using tar for backup.
 

Hello.

I have created a cronjob which is going to run at 1:30am each Saturday. I have done this with...

crontab -e
30 1 * * 0 /runfile

I am backing up around about 60GB of data, only a seperate HDD in th eserver. I want all of the files to preserve their file ownership, permissions, and full directory paths.

Basically so, If I have a disaster and the RAID pack dies and the data gets lost, I can untar the latest backup file and everything will be as it was.

Can anyone please help me out with the tar command. I want to nail it first time as it is a production server.

Thanks alot.

Best Regards,
Craig

hi,

tar -czf tarfile.tar.gz directory
if you want to backup everything
tar -czf totalBackup.tar.gz /
if your server handles tar.bz2 better
tar -cjf backup.tar-bz2 /

Cool thanks alot foo!!!!

I'll give that a go.

Thanks again.
>Craig :)