13 May
2010
13 May
'10
9:04 a.m.
On Thursday 13 May 2010, jtd wrote:
cat /dev/sda >tmp/clonedisk tar -jcvf /tmp/clonedisk /bkp/clonedisk.bz2
Won't that overwrite /tmp/clonedisk? Did you mean:
tar -jcvf /bkp/clonedisk2 /tmp/clonedisk
Also, you have to be sure that /, /tmp and /bkp are mounted on separate partitions otherwise the backup will just end up trying to back itself up recursively.
Regards,
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