On Thursday 27 February 2003 16:17, John Richard Smith wrote: > Harv Nelson wrote: > >Hi > > > >Is there some sort of backup/restore utility that I can use to make > > backups using the CD-R on my machines? CD-R's cost about a dime each > > these days. That price makes that media much more attractive than > > investing in a big tape drive and tapes.. > > > >I've got 5 machines on my little network. Each has a 20 gig HD (or less). > >How about another machine with a couple 50 gig drives that would be used > > just for backing up the others? That would cost about as much as the tape > > drives and tapes. > > > >Another strategy you'd care to suggest? > > > >Thanks a bunch > > > >Harv > > Take a look at Gentoo it comes with partimage is a nice iso file > you download and write to CD, boot up on it, run it to prompt > and type partimage . When your've created the partition image > files you write then to CD and restore from them. I've just > learnt how to do it and it works, though I've only done it > with ext2 partition, the manual suggests it works with all file systems > but as I say I have only tested it so far with the one. > > If anyone is interested I've written(for my own use) a help file. > > > John
I'm interested John. I've got a 40Gb WDC disk that's giving probs once or twice a month. I keep on telling myself to take the time to back it up before it goes. It's the time I'm short on:o( A nice help file like that would be just the push I need:o) TIA, HarM
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