On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, mitch portland wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have a Fedora 21 system. I need to create a clone of the system's
hard drive (there's just one), so that if it ever fails, I can swap
it out for the cloned drive and it'll be like nothing ever happened.
The point of this is so that I can be immune from any system update
that might go awry, as often happens with video driver updates and
the like, or a plain-old hard drive failure.
In addition to the drive cloning, I'd probably also do more frequent
backups of just my home directory contents every few days.
Neither of these need to be fancy or automatic. The separate clone &
backup drives can either be USB or installed in a drive slot in the
machine.
Any recommendations would be very much appreciated.
For cloning, it's hard to beat Clonezilla:
http://clonezilla.org
I've booted it both off a thumb drive and via PXE; either method works
pretty well.
For backups, well, you have many more options, each with its own
strengths and weaknesses. You'll need to get a better sense of what
feeatures you want (just a clone of your live filesystem? snapshots?)
before choosing one.
--
Paul Heinlein
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