18 Mar
2004
18 Mar
'04
19:44
On Thursday 18 March 2004 19:23, pinto wrote:
~ Sure . . . find this handy for backups. ~ shutdown, and plug in a spare HardDisk ~ kill -9 cron PID { to find PID : ps aux | grep cron } ~ mount the target Partition in the spare HardDisk ~ use TAR like this :-
tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )
P.S. impression : a Linux home-workstation is easily 'portable' . . . if going on a trip, spare HardDisk in pocket, one can have good chance that plugging HD into roughly similar hardware will work, with a run of Sax2 to get the Video monitor working ok best rgds ________