On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 23:09 -0500, Bob S wrote: > > > Replying to myself here so I can reply to all of the folks who were kind > enough to answer my query. Thanks Bryen, Rodney, Carlos, Joe, Otto.. Jeffrey, > Billie, etc. > > Your replies lead to more questions, As I stated previously, I would like to > do an "all in one" if possible. Bootable and incrementaly up to date. > > Will dd build a bootable disk? Can that clone be updated by rsync to > make it current? > > I am not worried about whitespace and I would buy a disk just a little larger > than my proposed cloning. It's sole purpose would be for a backup. The whole > idea of this exercise would be to have a faithful bootable system until I > could replace my failed drive and/or be able to restore from that drive if I > had corruption/whatever on the primary drive. Now, suppose I did have a > primary drive failure and I used the backup clone to restore to a larger > disk. As Carlos pointed out I couldn't use dd to restore because the extra > space would then be inaccessible. Could the new primary be partioned first so > that it would be? > > Otto has an intersting solution which I will have to investigate. If it will > do incremental backups to the disk that would be perfect. > > Jeffrey suggests SystemRescueCD but if that is like Mondo and is a one time > thing, I don't want that. Don't know anything about rsnapshot. Will that make > a bootable replacement drive? Is it just anothe variation of rsync? > > I know,.....I could use raid to clone and build a replacement drive,, but if > I > corrupt, delete, whatever it happens to both drives. > > Any other suggestions advice? > > Bob S
Though I haven't used it, another suggestion might be to use http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l to make an image of your installation by ghosting it. I've heard people say good things about it. -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
