backup issue.... help ?

[sanne]

Does anyone knows howto generate backups from entire system
in the stage's format, including hidden files, permissions etc ?

sorry my poor english.

thanks

[Proteus]

Hi Sanne!

Use tar for backups. It backs up everything (ie. permissions, etc.) and is filesystem independent.

A "man tar" should help you a lot - but its not too hard to figure out the right switches for tar. You could use

tar -cvpf My-Backup.tar .

This would backup your whole system including all mounted devices at that moment when issued in the root directory.

Hope this helps.
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