zentara wrote:

Arturo Martinez-Nieves wrote:

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Simple question... Once I have SuSe up and running and configured just as I like, what's the best way to back it all up to a single file (perhaps a tar or a gzip, whatever is a better option), so that if disaster strikes, I can just restore from this backup and get things back as they were before I screw them.

I mean if it was windows I would say copy over the files on your C:\ and then copy the whole of the WINDOWS directory and special attention to SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT because they contain the registry.

Now in Linux what do you need to protect in a similar fashion, and what's the most friendly way to achieve this.

I have used tar -cvzf root.tgz /

run it in the root directory and it will make root.tgz

I have checked this again, and it seems it is better to use tar -cvzf root.tgz * if you use / instead of *, the tgz file tries to include itself. If you want a text file listing all your files, tar -tzvf root.tgz > root.txt - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>