hi guys
i have a problem

i want to make a full backup from all files and directories in linux.

i use tar command to make a full backup .
but unfortunately my backup does not contain so ( share object ) files .!!

how can i make a backup from all directories and file even so (share object) files.

and another question is about find command . i decide to make a backup with cpio but find command doesnt show so files !!

find cannot show so files when i search a path to find modules (so ) files.

find /etc -name \*.so -print ----> no result !!

tar cpvzf backup /etc ----> it does not contain so files and other files , which are not regular files !!

thx in advance

Why would you put a backslash in front of the asterick? You are looking for a single file named "star-dot-s-o" by doing that. I'm not surprised you don't have that particular file on your system.

u do that without \ !!!
it does not change the result !!

lets search conf file in /etc with \ ! find /etc -name \*.conf . ! do u get unexpected result ???????

it's not bad to take a look at this !!!to learn how that work !!
http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/Unix/FindCmd.htm

find -name -name \*.txt -print !!!!!!!!!

or

find dir_name -type f \( -name \*.txt -o -name '*some-name*' -o '*other*' \)

I did not initially notice your lack of quotes in the find command. I always use them myself, but I now see that you don't, which is fine.

There is a difference between:

find . -name "*.conf" -print

and

find . -name "\*.conf" -print

... which is what I was describing. My error for not noticing your lack of quotes in your initial post. Sorry about that.

Maybe I'm reading your above sentence differently than you intended, but *.so files ARE regular files.
Could be you actually meant "it does not contain so files, and other files that are not regular files"

Whatever, *.so files SHOULD be included in your backups given the way you wrote the tar command in your example. I have no idea why they are not.

thx man for your reply .
but still i have problem !

is there any idead ?????????HELP ME PLZ

First, please post the complete command you're using to make the backup.
Second, are you executing this command as root or a normal user?

Cheers

hi see the first post

i used

tar cpvzf httpd-backup.tar.gz /etc/httpd !!

i execute command as root !!!

Normally I don't expect to find library files in the /etc directory.

I did a check on my system and indeed the only .so files I can find are those in /etc/alternatives which are soft-links to files in /usr/lib and /usr/lib32.

Doing a tar -cpzvf test.tar /etc backups those links without a problem.

System tested Kubuntu 12.04.
You did not tell us what distro/version you are using, so we will not be able to tell you what's normal for your system.

Cheers

Using tar is a very old way to backup. TAR stands for TapeARchive. Tape drives cannot accommodate thousands of small files, and the tape sector sizes are sometimes different than a disk drive, so operators once used tar to make one large file and then streamed it to tape using dd, or the opposite, which also works.

But now you can stream dd through gzip and make compressed backups quite a bit faster than tar. And, the dd generated backups when restored to a completely lost system will still boot the system. All you need to do is restore the backup, and the system is complete. See: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ommand-362506/

so files are apache modules like mod_ssl.so mod_ldap.so mod_authnz_ldap.so and so on ...
if u have apache u can find them in /etc/httpd/modules

my distro is centos 6.4 . and i used tar (GNU tar) 1.23.

thx man but problem is dd cannot make a copy from a directory !
i want to backup from /etc/httpd/ and dd cannot do that . dd if=/etc/httpd of=/mnt/apache bs=64k conv=notrunc,noerror it does not work !

no one ?????