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HowTo backup to a secondary ide or scsi disk First you need a second disk equal to or greater than the size of your current disc Create an ext2 partition and filesystem - i.e. To create a partition, su - fdisk /dev/hdb command to create new partition - n make it a primary partition full size of the disk command to write changes - w To create the filesystem, i.e. mke2f2 /dev/hdb1 To set the disk to automount edit /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab i.e. vi /etc/fstab add a new line for the device and where you want to mount the device i.e /dev/hdb1 /mnt/seconddisk ext2 defaults 0 0 vi /etc/mtab i.e. /dev/hdb1 /mnt/seconddisk ext2 rw 0 0 make a new directory in /mnt for you disk i.e mkdir /mnt/seconddisk Now you are ready to backup i.e. dump -0af - /dev/hda6 |(cd /mnt/seconddisk;restore xvf - ) -remember to verify your partitions on you system and edit the line above to match your box, also remember if you type this command in wrong you will be up that one creek. Nate Turnbow Systems Engineer -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
