Alex Schuster wrote:
> Iain Buchanan writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> > > using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in
> > > a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script
> > > itself is necessary. If anyon
Iain Buchanan writes:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in
> > a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script
> > itself is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email.
>
Iain Buchanan writes:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I
> > make a LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while
> > the backup is still in progress.
>
> hmm, never got int
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 29.04.2010 02:38, schrieb Iain Buchanan:
> > Hi & thanks,
> >
> > On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >> If you can live with just one big partition as a backup (probably with
> >> separate /boot),
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
[snip]
> All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I make a
> LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while the backup
> is still in progress.
hmm, never got into LVM. Sounds interesting though...
[s
Am 29.04.2010 02:38, schrieb Iain Buchanan:
> Hi & thanks,
>
> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
[...]
>
>> If you can live with just one big partition as a backup (probably with
>> separate /boot), you should replace fstab and grub.conf on the backup
>> medium and blackli
Iain Buchanan writes:
> A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard
> drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can
> replace it with the external disk and continue straight away.
I do the same, but with a 2nd internal drive. The drive is parti
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 23:16 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> rsync -aX --delete / /dev//
>
> -a (archive) copies permissions, ownerships and the likes
> -X stops at file system boundaries, i.e. it will only backup the actual root
> partition, without other mounted file systems such as /proc, /
Hi,
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 23:16 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> After I upgraded my laptop with an internal HDD of 500 GB, I started using my
> old external 500 GB drive as backup. Though of different dimensions and
> makers, they both have the same number of sectors. So I dd'ed the entire d
Hi & thanks,
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Can md use one internal and one external disk in a RAID 1 setup, with
> > the external disk not always there? Any other suggestions?
> >
> > thanks :)
>
> md would be extremely slow because it has to rebuild/resync the
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Iain Buchanan:
> Hi,
>
> A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard
> drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can
> replace it with the external disk and continue straight away.
>
> Since I go to weird loc
Am 28.04.2010 03:41, schrieb Iain Buchanan:
> Hi,
>
> A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard
> drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can
> replace it with the external disk and continue straight away.
>
> Since I go to weird locations
Hi,
A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard
drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can
replace it with the external disk and continue straight away.
Since I go to weird locations with unreliable power and sometimes drop
my laptop I thoug
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