problem. :(
Please help guys. :(
Best regards,
Adrian
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From: Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Complete system backup
I can confirm this kind of primitive cloning works perfectly.
All you
. No example
which suits my problem. :(
Please help guys. :(
Best regards,
Adrian
- Original Message -
From: Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Complete system backup
I can confirm this kind
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From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Complete system backup
I take it you're trying to tar into a file in the smb partition? Man, I
love giving this answer:
then don't do
copies of the whole file.
Best regards,
Adrian
- Original Message -
From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Complete system backup
I take it you're trying to tar into a file
and
permissions (as well as links) would be preserved.
James
Best regards,
Adrian
- Original Message -
From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Complete system backup
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the backup files do not fit the packages versions. So I was kinda
wondering if there is such thing as a backup where to restore the whole
system (including OS itself) you'd put the backup CD in and let it restore
installer like. So without having to install linux first.
Sorry if this might come up twice in the list, but
for some strange reasonI sent the message yesterday and it didn't appear
yet in the list. On the other hand the message I sent today appeared in a few
mins, so I will suppose the message got lost somehow on the way and post it
again. Sorry
Wow,
Can go with mindi/mondo (urpmi mind) would take care
of it.
Or, in my case, buy a cheapo drive $30.00 gives u 40Gb
nowadays, and
tar cf /dev/hdb/root.tar /
for i in /usr /var /opt /home /whateverfilesystem
do
tar cf /mnt/hdb/$i $i
done
So if hda dies, all u do is replace it, and boot
the backup files do not fit the packages versions. So I was kinda
wondering if there is such thing as a backup where to restore the whole
system (including OS itself) you'd put the backup CD in and let it restore
installer like. So without having to install linux first. This might
also prove
I can confirm this kind of primitive cloning works perfectly.
All you have to do during full backup is to omit special directories :
- /proc
- /tmp
- /mnt
= tar czf everything_on_hda.tar.gz --exclude /tmp --exclude /proc --exclude
/mnt /
If your source drive (hda ?) is *very* huge/full, you can
I used a USB 2.0 external hard drive with rsync. Had to use rsync
because I wanted the file system on the external to be FAT32 for cross
compatibility.
If the drive were say twice as large I would have just created two
partitions and had one of each ReiserFS and FAT32. The resulting
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