[ale] Backup problems

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Gary,

I didn't know that winzip could read tar.gz files.  That's pretty
neat!  Can you read your file under Linux?  If you can't read it under 
linux, then I would suspect that something is messed up about the tar
file.

The reason why you are getting only 1 file system backed up is because 
of the 'l' option you are passing tar (from the man page):

       -l, --one-file-system
              stay in local file system when creating an archive

-Eric.

Gary S. Mackay writes:
 > I currently have a cron job that runs each night to backup the entire Linux
 > hard drive. I do not have a tape drive yet, so the best I can do right now, is
 > dump it to my NT workstation drive. The cron job uses smbmount to mount the
 > drive, then uses tar to copy the drive, then smbumount to release it. It all
 > runs just fine as far as there are no error messages. But..
 > 
 > Command line:
 >    tar -czvlf /mnt/backup/`date +'%b%d%y'`.tar.gz /
 > 
 > Problems: 
 > 1. The Aug3099.tar.gz file that gets created is not readable by WinZip on the
 > NT box. Since I can extract other *.tar.gz files that I download, I'm guessing
 > I'm doing something wrong.
 > 
 > 2. I am not getting the entire drive backed up. Only the root, and one level
 > deep I think is all that is getting picked up.
 > 
 > - Gary
 > 
 > 
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