Re: [expert] Complete system backup

[Jim C]

I used a USB 2.0 external hard drive with rsync.  Had to use rsync 
because I wanted the file system on the external to be FAT32 for cross 
compatibility. 
If the drive were say twice as large I would have just created two 
partitions and had one of each ReiserFS and FAT32. The resulting 
compressed file size turned out to be to big for a couple compression 
utilities as well as the FAT32 file system which is why I had to go with 
rsync.  I keep music and video on mine.

Jim C.

Wow,

Can go with mindi/mondo (urpmi mind) would take care
of it.
Or, in my case, buy a cheapo drive $30.00 gives u 40Gb
nowadays, and
tar cf /dev/hdb/root.tar /
for i in  /usr /var /opt /home /whateverfilesystem
do
tar cf /mnt/hdb/$i $i
done
So if hda dies, all u do is replace it, and boot with
install disk, rescue mode, create ur new filesystems,
and restore from backup drive only the files/directory
into new location.
then run lilo -r /mnt/hdb/
reboot with new drive.
Works everytime for me.

I even clone systems this way (primitive, but works!)
Thanks
 





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