Backing up my system?
peter Jarzynka
peter at thecybersource.com
Fri May 25 12:54:51 EDT 2007
Hello Joe,
I dont know much about the Linux backup possibilities but if you do
come across some way that you can daisy chain burnt cd's, I would love
to hear about it. I would vote this as a possible subject matter for
the next meeting. I would also like to vote "Fonts" issue for the next
meeting too. I think this is an extremely important topic for windoz
migration into Linux. I have been playing with the different methods
for fonts with no luck. Does anyone know if the xfs and xfstt daemons
can run simultaneously? Peter
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Joe Pollock" <josephj at adelphia.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:55:27 -0400
>Hi. Before I get into all the gruesome details, my basic question
is: >How do I backup my system using linux so I can restore it
*completely* >in a simple manner without going through reinstalling
everything (my >Windoz system takes about 4 days by the time I get all
the applications >and patches etc. back where they were)?
>
>I have a dual boot system with Windoz on the C and D drives (hda1,
hda5) >and Red Hat 7.0 on 3 remaining partitions. The last and
largest >partition is /image. It is currently empty and should have
plenty of >room (around 11 gb) for compressed backups of everything
else.
>
>I am about to install Mandrake 8.0, but first, I want to backup all
of >Red Hat (excluding the image partition itself and /mnt) to /image
so I >can restore it if I need anything or if I don't like Mandrake,
etc.
>
>I read the tar man and info pages and tried the following:
>
>#bash
>#backuprh - backup RedHat 7.0 to image partition
>tar -c -P --preserve --same-owner -S --totals -w -z --file=/image/rh7
>--exclude=/image -V rh7 /
>
>I realize that I need to add something like --exclude=/mnt, but the
>main problem was that when I ran this it was asking for confirmation
on >every file (which would take a few years to complete). Can I just
>remove the -w option? I was hoping it would only ask for
confirmation >for an overwrite or other problem - not for everything.
>
>The bottom line is - How do I make an easily restorable backup of Red
>Hat to my /image drive and what do I have to watch for or do when I
>install Mandrake so that Windoz and the /image partition are left
>intact? Also, once Mandrake is installed, are there any issues
related >to accessing the /image partition if I want to extract
something from >the archive?
>
>As a side issue, the tar documentation refers to a backup script that
>should do a lot of this for me, but it didn't really tell me how it
>works. Also, it said that the restore script (kind of useful) didn't
>exist. What's the story on this?
>
>I am big on backups, having been burnt numerous times. I am in the
>process of installing a cd-rw drive. One of the main reasons for
>getting it was so I could back up linux and Windoz and restore them
if I >have to. It seems like a good idea to backup Windoz partitions
from >linux as some sort of image backup because when linux is
running, Windoz >isn't, so no files are locked etc.
>
>What about various backup utilities like bru and amanda? What's the
>easiest way to deal with this and keep it all straight so that when
>something breaks and panic starts to set in, there's a simple
procedure >to follow to get back to a known state without having to
figure >everything out again and worrying that you might leave out
some >important data or patches.
>
>
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