On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:49:10PM +0800, William Xu wrote: > Paul van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:33:24PM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote: > >> Looks like my Powerbook has some hardware problem so I have to ship it > >> to Apple for repair. Before that, I think it would be prudent to make > >> a backup --- could people please suggest some tools for that? > > > > My disk was broken as well two weeks ago. I have an external disk > > with an ext3 fs on it. So I rsync -vaP'ed my root and home partition > > to two dirs on the disk and back, works like a charm and efficient. > > > Got 100% recovery with a broken HDD fortunately. :) > > A little curious about the recovery. So you backup the whole system to > an external disk, then when the system fails, use the install-cd to > boot, open a shell, copy back the backups. Reboot. and done. Is it like > this?
Yes. That's about it. Only after rsync is done, don't forget the chroot /<root mount point> ybin :) Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Technology, The Netherlands | JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
