On Fri, 28 May 1999, L. A. Mulieri wrote:
> Hello Linuxers,
> Can someone point me to locations where I can get info etc on
> backup systems? I'd like to have one that makes an exact mirror image of
> my entire HD. I'm currently using "Ditto System from IOmega" with my WIN95
> HD and find backing up "Everything on C-drive" does not contain everything
> needed to restore my system exactly back to original. In changing over to
> LINUX I'd like to have a software/hardware system that will reproduce
> everything exactly as it was on a previous drive on the new drive. I guess
> it would have to copy sector by sector.
Depends on what you mean by exactly. I use cpio for my backups, and have
even used it to move a Windows install from one disk to another (backup to
nfs, put new disk in, restore from nfs). It works without a problem, the only
thing you have to do afterwards is boot from floppy and "system c:".
(I always put a small Linux partition on every computer I come across.
Simplifies stuff like this enormously).
>
> Lou Mulieri
> Hinesburg, VT
>
>
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