Hey, I was reading an article in Linux Journal and I thought about your problem. Evidently, this problem has already been addressed by someone else, and much more elegantly also. This was an article in the Dec 2001 issue of LJ, the article was titled "Guard Against Data Loss with Mondo Rescue".
Mondo is the app's name, and it's got some interesting features. Check this out: 1)Automatically saves either to ISO images on the hard drive or to a CDRW drive directly. 2) Capable of cloning an installation of Linux 3) Backs up a filesystem running on one FS and restores it to another FS type 4) Restructure partitions, e.g., shrinking/enlarging, reassign devices, add hard drives BEFORE you partition and format your drives! Restores your data and amends /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab accordingly !! 5) Will even back up Windows systems, including the boot sectors! 6) Also will verify the integrity of your existing system with the use of a previous backup. It's main strength seems to be it's ability to handle backup and rewriting of hard drive boot sectors. Check this out: www.microwerks.net/~hugo Good luck. I'm going to download it as well. Even if it's 1/4 as good as this article said, it's going to be worth it! On Saturday 02 February 2002 17:31, you wrote: > What backup apps are there for LM 8.0 that actually work? > > Looked into Partimage but couldn't get / or /home to unmount to use . > > Help ? > > Mike _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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