Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[James Oakley <joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On April 11, 2002 04:38 pm, Alfredo Cole wrote:
> El Jue 11 Abr 2002 13:12, escribiste:
> > I need information as to how I can produce a tar.gz archive of my
> > home directory, with all files and subdirectories set out so that I
> > can unpack the archive in case I need to replace the /home
> > directory, etc.
> >
> > I looked in the Howtos, and found no help.  The manual pages are
> > inadequate and therefore unhelpful as well.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > dj tuchler
>
> Midnight Commander wil do it for you. Position it inside your home
> directory and press F2. Select option 3 Make a release of the current
> subdirectory (tar.gz), and that's it.

Be careful with that one. It's meant for software releases and will replace 
symlinks with the linked files/directories.

- -- 
James Oakley
Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.solutioninc.com
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