tar'ing a entire system to a file

From: James Campbell (james-cs-orst_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/17/03


Date: 17 Dec 2003 10:15:35 -0800

Hello group,

I am tring to tar Redhat 7.2 to one file then take that file and ftp
to a bare bones install of 7.2 on another machine. in hopes to expand
it and have all of it there. I guess like a disk image.

I will start up the current box with init -s in hopes to have most
files closed during tar operation.

can I just use :-> tar cfz archive.tar.gz /

will that do it?

--james



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