RE: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-12 Thread James Sebastian
Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal recovery. Check out PCQuest [www.pcquest.com] for Mondo Mindi. Ran an article on your requirement somewhere in the last few issues. Or Just Google for Mondo. Thanks for the so many valuable

Re: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-08 Thread Yogesh Kulkarni
Hi all, Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal recovery. tar will fail since it is not file system aware and will try to backup /proc etc. Any solutions other than taking each directory seperately. I am lokkinf for a

Re: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-08 Thread hizibiz
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Yogesh Kulkarni wrote: Hi all, Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal recovery. tar will fail since it is not file system aware and will try to backup /proc etc. Any solutions other than

Re: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-08 Thread Rajkumar S
James Sebastian wrote: Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal recovery. Partimage http://partimage.org/ let's you backup partitions as file images. This along with a backup of MBR let's you restore a linux completely from backup. I

Re: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-08 Thread ravee_27
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:12:12 +0530 (IST), hizibiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Yogesh Kulkarni wrote: Hi all, Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal recovery. Hi, I do not understand why anyone wants to

Re: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-08 Thread hizibiz
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:12:12 +0530 (IST), hizibiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Yogesh Kulkarni wrote: Hi all, Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal

Re: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-08 Thread Sthitaprajna
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:31:31 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal recovery. I do not understand why anyone wants to backup the root file system...(forgive my ignorance :)) I believe as long

[LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-07 Thread James Sebastian
Hi all, Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal recovery. tar will fail since it is not file system aware and will try to backup /proc etc. Any solutions other than taking each directory seperately. I am lokkinf for a linux utility

Re: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-07 Thread G.Vinubalaji
tar will fail since it is not file system aware and will try to backup /proc etc. Any solutions other than taking each directory seperately. what about tar --exclude /proc -zcvf / -- G.Vinubalaji MultiTech (()) Software Systems

Re: [LIH]Root file system Backups

2004-01-07 Thread G.Vinubalaji
tar will fail since it is not file system aware and will try to backup/proc etc. Any solutions other than taking each directory seperately. what about tar --exclude /proc -zcvf / Forgot the tar file name. should have been tar --exclude /proc -zcvf rootbackup.tar.gz / -- G.Vinubalaji