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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Backup of Directory Post 302353051 by frank_rizzo on Monday 14th of September 2009 11:21:54 AM
Old 09-14-2009
Code:
tar -cvf /path/to/backup.tar /stuff/to/backup

or

to use relative paths since the AIX tar is not as forgiving with full paths like GNU tar
Code:
cd /stuff/to
tar -cvf /path/to/backup.tar backup

 

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BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)						    Box Backup							BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)

NAME
bbackupd-config - Box Backup client daemon configuration file generator SYNOPSIS
bbackupd-config config-dir backup-mode account-num server-hostname working-dir backup-dir [backup-dir ...] DESCRIPTION
The bbackupd-config script creates configuration files and client certificates. It takes at least six parameters: config-dir Configuration directory. Usually /etc/box. backup-mode Either lazy or snapshot. account-num The client account number. This is set by the bbstored administrator. server-hostname The hostname or IP address of the bbstored server. working-dir A directory to keep temporary state files. This is usually something like /var/bbackupd. This can be changed in bbackupd.conf later on if required. backup-dir A space-separated list of directories to be backed up. Note that this does not traverse mount points. FILES
/etc/box/bbackupd.conf /etc/box/bbackupd/NotifySysAdmin.sh SEE ALSO
bbackupd.conf(5), bbackupd(8), bbackupctl(8) AUTHORS
Ben Summers Per Thomsen James O'Gorman Box Backup 0.11 10/28/2011 BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)
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