[PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Sep 26 13:02:59 UTC 2016


On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Tom wrote:

> Although, if you run it like that, you can only restore /home/rshepard
> Thus, I find following equivalent more flexible:
> cd /home
> tar czvf /mnt/hd/caddis/caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz rshepard
> This way you can restore the rshepard dir anywhere you like.

> Hope it helps, T

Tom,

   Yes, it does help. Had I thought more carefully and researched tar
behavior I might have seen this approach. Then next backup will use this.

Thanks,

Rich



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