On Thursday 13 May 2010 14:34:41 Raj Mathur wrote: > On Thursday 13 May 2010, jtd wrote: > > cat /dev/sda >tmp/clonedisk > > tar -jcvf /tmp/clonedisk /bkp/clonedisk.bz2 > > Won't that overwrite /tmp/clonedisk? Did you mean: > > tar -jcvf /bkp/clonedisk2 /tmp/clonedisk
Arrgh. Sorry for the typo. > Also, you have to be sure that /, /tmp and /bkp are mounted on > separate partitions otherwise the backup will just end up trying to > back itself up recursively. /tmp has to be on a different disk if he's cloning the disk. But i am sure Harsh will figure out the minor details like booting from a different disk ( the reason for his live disk query), avoiding /proc and /dev etc. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
