On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:25 AM, GMS S gmspro@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, Reading this:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087 I ran this command from terminal being root
tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys /
You can do this way, but ideally your file system should be unmounted (boot from a live CD/DVD).
I, personally, use BackupPC for /home and partimage for the file system (/ and /boot).