[NBLUG/talk] UNIX System V backup woes

[gandalf at sonic.net]

You're right, of course it's recursing. I'm a dork and that could be my 
whole problem. I'll try the compression, but I don't think it's there at 
all. You can use:
tar Cvf
but it looks like a weird old compression routine. I didn't trust it so 
was just using cvf. I read the whole man page for this tar and it's 
missing z among many other things like skipping folders and files. At 
least man works :-)



On 2015-10-23 10:14, Omar Eljumaily wrote:
> BTW, that command seems dangerously recursive because /backup is inside 
> /
> 
> Omar
> 
> 
> On 10/23/2015 10:08 AM, Omar Eljumaily wrote:
>> Have you tried using compression?
>> 
>> tar cvzf /backup/backup.tar.gz /
>> 
>> On 10/23/2015 10:04 AM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
>>> I'm trying to create a backup process for this system and it has an 
>>> antiquated version of tar. I tried:
>>> 
>>> tar cvf /backup/backup.tar /
>>> 
>>> but this results in an error because the file is too big (2.14G) for 
>>> the OS. I probably should just break it down into segments backing up 
>>> individual directories. I tried some spanning commands, but I think 
>>> their designed for specific devices and not files. Haven't tried 
>>> copying the boot sectors yet, hope that is normal.
>>> 
>>> I worked on this system before, it's a bit like administering Linux 
>>> with one hand tied behind your back. Everything is sorta the same, 
>>> but different and doesn't always work the way you expect.
>>> 
>>> Also going to look into scripting WinSCP as it can connect and pull 
>>> of files for backup to one of the win servers.
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