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From: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:59:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47032FCD.2020102@electronsweatshop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4702BA87.80204@googlemail.com>

Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> tar --atime-preserve --same-owner --numeric-owner -Spvcjf back.tar.bz2 /

Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc?  What about /dev?
Also, to Björn, I didn't find a -a option in man tar, what does it do?
Is it different that --atime-preserve?  Thanks!

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-02 20:45 [gentoo-user] Migrating a system Randy Barlow
2007-10-02 21:39 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2007-10-03  5:59   ` Randy Barlow [this message]
2007-10-03  6:14     ` Daniel Pielmeier
2007-10-03  7:27       ` Mick
2007-10-03  7:41       ` Neil Bothwick
2007-10-02 23:03 ` Björn Ottervik
2007-10-03 17:47 ` Dan Farrell

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