Re: quick and dirty backup

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> wrote:
> >       tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude /proc --exclude /sys
> >Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 it seems my backup is running "forever"
> 
> I would suggest also excluding /dev, /tmp, /var/tmp and maybe /media, depending upon your needs.
> 
I'd also exclude lost+found

-Rob