How to tar /

[Tim]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:34 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I can understand archiving /home and /etc - and some stuff in /var
> (databases etc. - though databases really should be dumped before
> backup) - but why / ?

Well, I can imagine it being a very simple way to restore a system after
it got futzed up, or to clone one.  It avoids all the installations
required if you didn't.

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