-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 smertz wrote: > I have spent a great deal of time on simple things in Linux as I am new > over the last week (No better way to learn) But I don't want to > re-learn in case the proverbial Hard Drive dies, so what is a good way > to back up my system? On my 2 Windows XP machines I use Ghost 9. Is > there similar thing to copy a Linux drive? > > Or can I simply do something like an XCOPY from one drive to a second > one as a backup? > > I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant) > on a home Workgroup as a File and print server - If I ever get Samba set > up correctly. Any suggestions appriciated. > > Thanks >
$ man rsync I use rsync over NFS to back up my file server to another machine - there are a lot of options available. On the same machine, you can use dd to copy partitions, but it is tremendously slow. It is the only way to get a full disk image, though - it's the best thing I've found for backing up Windows and BIOS boot floppies. Jim - -- GPG key available gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 359DBF73 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCVJh2evfmjTWdv3MRAlFPAKCHxxwVxbbUqtUhg6myRIE5mBjdNgCfXkIs KSkDzRNsCsSnhfmngO9IJjc= =7d4R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
