Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to do
a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a "clone" of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If not,
can I copy everything and then boot it from the DVD? Again, if not, and I
just want a backup of everything, must I partition the new drive exactly as
the original drive and rsync the partitions individually?
I am thinking hard drive failure (could take it out of the enclosure and
replace the failed internal disk with it) as well as file corruption backups.
Used to use Kdar for backups but it isn't supported for 10.3 Was always
worried about a reinstall after a hard drive failure with all of the extra
stuff I have installed.
Bob S
Hi Bob,
I have written a comprehensive script to do just this. Typically, my
customers have 7 sets of ext hdd (up to cust to decide how many) and
they change it every day. It does a complete clone (250GB) in about 30
minutes (using rsync), If you are interested in the script - email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will email you the script as attachment. You
may need to modify the script slightly to adjust for number of
partitions and such - the script is fairly well documented and readable.
The nice thing about this is that in case of a sys crash, they simply
swap disks and reboot. Rgds. Otto.
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