Thread: Backups with tar

I'm looking at how this command to make backups and referring to this page I've seen how it works more or less. The problem I have is that by doing as the page is when I tell you where I want to save the copy I get an error and I keep the backup in the same directory where I want to back and also as the name puts 'z'. I place the order as is: tar-cvzf / home / user / copia.tgz


Then I looked also how to make an incremental backup and saw it was the order-N to indicate a date. I do not know if when the run is good because the results shown are also directories that had been backed up and had not undergone any change.

That you say you want to make a tgz file with the name back but you're not saying that's what you want to copy. An example would be this tar-cvzf / home / user / copia.tgz *. txt -> You would copy all the files. Txt. In the example you've spent backing up everything (from /) and excludes certain system directories .

Okay so I have to pass two parameters, location and name that will copy and then the directory where you want to do the backup. And to make an incremental backup would also have to do as you say but adding-N and a date?
Edit: Okay, now I understand why I was making a copy error. The parameter f is not put at the very end. If I leave at the end if it works perfect.