Best way to backup a specific drive?

[Tim]

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:48 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I am preparing to backup my root drive in preparation
> for installing f7.  What is the best way to do this?
> 
> I have in /dev/hda as:
> 
> /boot = /dev/hda1
> /       = /dev/hda2
> 
> I have backed up /boot with: tar zcvpf /boot.tgz /boot
> 
> But have get to figure out how to get /dev/hda2 backed up without
> picking up the other drives mounted on /

If you were backing up via devices, it wouldn't matter what was mounted
within it, that's a filing system issue.  

Tarballs, as you gave the example, are going the filesystem route.  You
could issue a string of commands just doing certain mount points, rather
than all of /.  That might be more useful, then you could back up /home
and restore parts of /home, for instance.  Likewise, you could
separately back up /usr, and so on.

This is a very bad idea:

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