On 11/30/07, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > When I installed Debian 4.0 I created a big, non-encrypted partition for > everything except /boot using Logical Volume Management. This seems to > have created problems for some backup programs: e.g. sbackup worked for a > while and then just quit, mondorescue failed because it couldn't find "valid > partition tables" for /dev /etc. > > But I think I have a simple, elegant solution! While my internal HD has > 160GB only about 12GB are used. In addition I have an 80GB external HD. I > just use cp -au. It's easy to do, fast and it doesn't require my esternal > HD to be running all the time. I run my external HD only when I backup in > hopes that is will out live my internal HD. > > Any comments?
If you are just backing up your files, cp or rsync work fine. If you want to back up your filesystem, dump is where it's at! You can 'dump' your entire filesystem and store it in one file (that is the size of all of your files combined) Then if your disk crashes, you can 'restore' your entire filesystem, and you computer won't even know the difference! I'm not a good source for how to use dump, as I've never properly learned myself, but I believe it can also do incremental backups as well. The dump man page is full of useful information though. http://dump.sourceforge.net -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
