07-07-2009
flarcreate help.
Hi, I have to clone a system and i would like to use flarcreate. My question is regarding excluding some NFS mounts and some directories under /. If somebody have done this earlier please advice on the following procedure.
Create a file like /exclude_list and put the following lines in it
/nfs1
/nfs2
/tmp
/u10
/data_tmp
then give the command
#flarcreate -n prod01 -R / -X /exclude_list /data_tmp/prod1-20090707.flar
where nfs1 and nfs2 are nfs mounts
/tmp is the tmp filesystem
/u10 is a filesystem
/data_tmp is the filesystem which has enough space to hold the flar file.
Any help is appreciated.
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NAME
e2tools - utilities to manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem
DESCRIPTION
E2tools is a simple set of GPL'ed utilities to read, write, and manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem. These utilities access a
filesystem directly using the ext2fs library. I wrote these tools in order to copy files into a linux filesystem on a machine that does not
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Supported functionality:
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In general, to specify a directory or file on an ext2 filesystem for the e2tools utilities, use the following form:
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SEE ALSO
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