# Back up the entire system to Charlesc's drive.<\n> # To make this work, we # need a convenient chunk of disk space on charlesc # we can mount as /mnt/save. save="/mnt/save # so we don't back up CD-ROMS umount /mnt/cdrom # Make sure it's there umount $save mount $save rm $save/tester.tar.old.gz mv $save/tester.tar.gz $save/tester.tar.old.gz cd / # back up RPM metadata rpm -Va > /etc/rpmVa.txt # save everything except /mnt and /proc. time tar cf - / --exclude /mnt --exclude /proc --exclude /home/save | gzip -c > $save/tester.tar.gz mount /mnt/cdrom