Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 02:37, Administrateur wrote:
>
> > Can I use backuppc for cloning a drive, i.e have an exact copy ?
> > Someone have test this ?
>
> You have to create the partitions and filesystems to match
> the original first. Then with unix/linux systems you can
> put back enough to get a working system (with a few extra
> steps to make it bootable). With Windows targets, you
> can't restore the complete system because you won't
> have the registry or files that were open during the
> backup.
For cloning a drive you should use a system imaging software like like
the cloning module of the LRS (Linbox Rescue Server, [1]). The GPL
version allows you to clone disks with file systems such as Ext2, Ext3,
ReiserFS, XFS and LVM v1/v2[2]. The proprietary version adds FAT and
NTFS.
It also has a file backup module which is a great software called...
backuppc ;-)
Damien
[1] http://lrs.linbox.org/wiki/WikiStartEn
[2] probably the first time ever a cloning software allows to create
optimized images of systems including a LVM (Logical Volume Management)
1 or 2 layer.
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