backup entire file system Usage: bash <(curl -s https://gist.github.com/baojie/5175293/raw/cba116a7b3dae98626f775d31aef2301ce5e5ee9/tarall.sh)

tarall.sh

#!bin/sh

# USAGE:
# bash <(curl -s https://gist.github.com/baojie/5175293/raw/cba116a7b3dae98626f775d31aef2301ce5e5ee9/tarall.sh)

# files to be excluded
cat > /tmp/exclude.txt << EOL
/dev
/tmp
/proc
/run
/sys/devices
/var/cache
EOL
 
# compress the entire file system into /tmp/whole.tar.gz, exclude file patterns given in exclude.txt
sudo tar -zcvf /tmp/whole.tar.gz -X /tmp/exclude.txt /
 
#scp /tmp/whole.tar.gz somehost:/path