Hello again...Attempting to figure some way to do alternate to SystemBack, I tried to first backup my system into a tarball, then intending to figure out how to go from there to making an .iso .
(Haven't fooled with the terminal since the days of RedHat5, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.)
So I tried
sudo tar - cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/mnt /
And no joy. What did I do wrong?
More Update: eliminated the " exclude=/mnt " and it started fine.
But over 2 hours later, I have a tar.gz that is 12.7G and still in the make.
SO THIS MUST BE THE WRONG WAY TO GO ABOUT DOING THIS.
My normal .sblive in tar form from SystemBack of this same system is 1.5G.
New respect for you guys and would sure like those 2 hours of my life back!
And if the bootable ISO is this big, then WOW, do I need SystemBack maintained!
(Haven't fooled with the terminal since the days of RedHat5, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.)
So I tried
sudo tar - cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/mnt /
And no joy. What did I do wrong?
More Update: eliminated the " exclude=/mnt " and it started fine.
But over 2 hours later, I have a tar.gz that is 12.7G and still in the make.
SO THIS MUST BE THE WRONG WAY TO GO ABOUT DOING THIS.
My normal .sblive in tar form from SystemBack of this same system is 1.5G.
New respect for you guys and would sure like those 2 hours of my life back!
And if the bootable ISO is this big, then WOW, do I need SystemBack maintained!