Dear take Whole copy of system in another partition
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Supreet Sethi <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Aug 5, 2013 9:15 PM, "Amit Bondwal" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If your ubuntu system is on LVM then lvm snapshot is the the best option > otherwise, one other option is > > that take full backup of partition using dd command by unmounting that > partition and take the backup of that partition to different partition or > if this did not work for root / , then run the live ubuntu cd and do it > again with help of dd command. > > > > Regards > > Amit Bondwal > > > Just adding to what amit has accurately described, if it is a desktop add > a new data drive and copy stuff out and rebuild partition on lvm. > > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Supreet Sethi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> LVM is hardly RHEL specific. It is available on any distro. Wipe your > Redhat Googles! > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Sayantan Datta <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Supreet Sethi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > I would really suggest using VM. Although file system snapshots are > >>> > available via LVM on Linux. I dunno what is the status of ZFS on > linux, but > >>> > ZFS provides unlimited snapshots such that you can go back to system > at a > >>> > particular time by popping a snapshot. > >>> > >>> hi, > >>> > >>> well RHEL has a solution for it though, > >>> > https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/snapshot_command.html > >>> > >>> but chances that you're using RHEL is slim. > >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:05 PM, vivek poddar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> >> > >>> >> Hi, > >>> >> > >>> >> I want to take a backup of my Ubuntu machine. I want something like > VMs > >>> >> where we take a snapshot and just run that snapshot to get where we > left > >>> >> off. Can we do similar thing with our host machine? > >>> >> > >>> >> Thanks and Regards! > >>> >> > >>> >> -- > >>> >> > >>> >> -*- Vivek Poddar -*- > >>> >> > >>> >> Technical consultant (OpenERP) > >>> >> > >>> >> Blog:http://vivekimsit.blogspot.in/ > >>> >> > >>> >> -- > >>> >> -- > >>> >> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > >>> >> http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > >>> >> > >>> >> --- > >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >>> >> "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an > >>> >> email to [email protected]. > >>> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > Supreet Sethi > >>> > Ph US: +19173102635 > >>> > Ph IN: +919811143517 > >>> > Ph Skype: d_j_i_n_n > >>> > Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/supreet.sethi > >>> > Twt: http://twitter.com/djinn > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > -- > >>> > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > >>> > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > >>> > > >>> > --- > >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >>> > "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an > >>> > email to [email protected]. > >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Sayantan Datta (UTC +0530) > >>> Senior Year Undergraduate > >>> National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India > >>> Phone : (+91) 9564370661 > >>> IRC : kenzo450D on #fedora, #nitdgplug, #kde > >>> > >>> -- > >>> -- > >>> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > >>> > >>> --- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Supreet Sethi > >> Ph US: +19173102635 > >> Ph IN: +919811143517 > >> Ph Skype: d_j_i_n_n > >> Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/supreet.sethi > >> Twt: http://twitter.com/djinn > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > >> > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > -- > > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. 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