Re: How to tar /

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Date: 11/18/05

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    try G4U ghost for Unix... works very well.

    Tim wrote:

    >On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:34 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
    >
    >
    >>I can understand archiving /home and /etc - and some stuff in /var
    >>(databases etc. - though databases really should be dumped before
    >>backup) - but why / ?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Well, I can imagine it being a very simple way to restore a system after
    >it got futzed up, or to clone one. It avoids all the installations
    >required if you didn't.
    >
    >
    > 

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