OK, my Bonobo Extreme is the most bad luck computer I have ever owned. First the soda in the keyboard incident, and now the video issues. But at the moment it is running, so it is time to make a complete backup. The partitions to be backed up are / and /home, separate partitions on a 480 GB SSD, which also has two discontinuous free spaces. I don't need the free spaces, but I want a copy of both partitions such that, come a disaster, I can simply restore them from the backup. I think the word I am looking for is "clone," or maybe "disk image."
I use rdiff-backup with a script to back up key parts, but here I want a complete copy. The destination will be a 3 TB USN 3.0 external drive. It has about 1.5 TB free space on it. I have heard of dd, but I know little about it. Before I invest a lot of time struggling to understand its man pages, is this the best tool for what I want to do? Or are there better choices? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
