I was not doing that copy by myself, my colleague did, the result is each directory under root has own tar file - /dev was excluded. He said that he used option to preserve file attributes.
Entire case started with project for p2v migration of old SCO machines. One of the machines had entire directory tar'ed and then we had to deploy virtual one. OVF eventually was deployed, but after...
I will have to read entire documentation. I've installed BackupEDGE and left default settings and in RecoverEDGE the only option that appeared to me to have recovery image created was...
For some strange reason RecoverEDGE only let me make a floppy, but since it's virtual machine it doesn't have floppy to be formatted. I've read through documentation and it should have more options...