On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:09:13PM -0700, baggab wrote: > I need a pointer to a mirroring strategy, similar to Ghost. How are people > backing up their systems? > > My system has a 40 GB HD with RH 8.0 in the 1st 25%, Knoppix in the 2nd 25%. > I want to mirror these two partitions into the other 50% of the drive. Then > I can tinker with the two OS's.
If you want to mirror, you should use software mirroring built into the kernel. However I think you used the wrong term. If you want to make a one time mirror (an identical copy of the file system) then you can use the dd command as bob suggested. However if you just want a backup of your system you an use a variety of programs. An easy way to do it is to: mount spare partition to say /mnt cp -a `ls / |egrep -v "proc|mnt"` /mnt umount /mnt Finally if you want just a backup of your data, you can do the same but specify the directories like /home. For my servers at work I use backuppc.sourceforge.net. It is very nice and maintenance free. (kbob, have you tried v2 yet? Released june 14th.) Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT Consulting Technology to your (541) 914-8417 business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
