On Saturday 08 December 2007 08:10:40 am Billie Walsh wrote: > 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 > > Just a suggestion. > > I've been playing around with Mondo Rescue. [ > http://www.mondorescue.org/ ] It's not exactly what your thinking of > doing. It makes a CD/DVD set that will boot and reinstall your system > EXACTLY as it was when the set was made. Then you could use a smaller > backup set to replace any changes. > Thanks for the suggestion Billie.
I used Mondo/Mindi way back in SuSE 8 days. Yes it made a faithful bootable copy of the system. Once you made it though, it hung around for 6 months or so because you didn't want to do that very often. Things change drastically in that 6 month period with updates and file data so there is still the problem of incremental backups. I think that I would like something that does it all at once. Hence my question to the list. I think that "Mike", one of the original proponents for Mondo/Mindi for SuSE still lurks on this list. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
