[plug] backup problems

[Jim Householder]

Quintin Lette wrote:
>>Try 3:  cpio pass-through.  Success!  I got the file list from locate as
>>it appeared cleaner than what ls gave me.
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> don't use locate, thats only updated nightly, you should use find.
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>>2.  Is what I copied with cpio suitable for restoring /, or did it miss
>>critical things.
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> quite possibly, basically any new file created since "updatedb" which
> is generally in cron daily, won't be there.
> 
> CPIO is a good tool for the backup job though.


Thanks.  To minimise problems I booted Knoppix 4.0 from DVD for the 
backups, and manually ran updatedb just before the backups.