Building Blocks

This gives us a complete list of packages

As the first step, back up /etc/ :

• tar -cvz -f ${bakDir}/etc.${dateStamp}.tar.gz /etc/ | \ tee -a ${log}

I use "tee" to create a log file

instead of "tar" option "-z" I could use:

• --use-compress-program bzip2

which provides better (but slower) compression

Notes: