Sven Blumenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could boot up the laptop with a LiveCD (Gentoo LiveCD, Knoppix > etc), mount the root partition and rsync the entire filesystem to > another machine in your network. > > I use something like this for cron controlled backups: > > rsync -e ssh --progress --delete -av --numeric-ids --exclude "/tmp" / > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/
Thank you, but that was not what I was asking for. I know of several ways to back up an entire file system. The thing is that I don't see the need to back up things that could just as easily be rebuilt. Feels like a waste of diskspace to me since I don't need 99,99% uptime. What I'd like to do is backing up only things that can't be rebuilt and all information I need to rebuild the system. Any ideas? /Rasmus Wiman http://rasmus.wiman.org http://dagbok.wiman.org I program my home computer Beam myself into the future -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
