On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Christopher Harewood wrote: > I finally have my Bering 1.0 stable box running just the way I like it, > booting from the hard drive. Now... what's the easiest way to back it > up? I have sftp installed, but it doesn't seem to allow multiple file > downloads, and I'd rather not get one... file... at a time.
a) consider using scp instead of sftp. (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue64/dellomodarme.html) b) The fact that you are concerned about the number of files suggests to me that perhaps you need to make a more appropriate choice of which files you back up. Fundamentally, I think it makes little sense to back up the files from your ramdisk(s) directly. Backup to your hard disk with lrpkg so the system is always self-restarting, and then backup the .lrp and other files to your backup space elsewhere through the network. The most straightforward way to do this from a *nix box is: mkdir backupdir ssh -l root yourrouter mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt scp root@yourrouter:/mnt/*.lrp backupdir/ scp root@yourrouter:/mnt/syslinux.cfg backupdir/ [... etc ...] ssh -l root yourrouter umount /mnt This has the advantage that you can back up only those files you have changed for an incremental backup. If you have a small boot partition, the easiest way to avoid forgetting something is to copy the whole thing: scp root@yourrouter:/dev/hda1 backup.img This has the advantage that you will get everything but your partition table, so restoring should be relatively easy if you don't have to replace the hard disk (boot with an ssh-enabled floppy, and then scp the image back to the partition). If the hard disk has to be replaced, then you have to duplicate the partition table manually first... at least so the first partition is the same as the one from your original hard disk. (Note that hda1 should NOT be mounted when you do this.) Note that it is possible to mount an image file on a Linux box using the loopback device rather than returning it to a partition just to look inside it... read "man mount" for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
