Backing up the system

Jan 29, '01 07:57:01AM

Contributed by: metafeather

Is is possible to tar the active OS X system (as with LinuxPPC)?

Has anyone determined which files/directories are best to backup in case of a system corruption? By this I mean if you just "tar czf / backup.tgz" you get all disks and loads of stuff you could easily reinstall.

I would like to move my install to a new machine, which I have a clean install of OSX on, but not reconfigure everything as I have spent a lot of time setting things up! I would like to take my tar from the old machine and install/overwrite the new install. Any ideas what will happen?

I have seen the discussion about re-blessing the System, but I don't think it applies if you are going straight from OS X - OS X.

TIA

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