Re: [SLUG] Backing up before a major reorg on a laptop
I'm about to re-jig my laptop which due to client needs has Linux on one partion and winXP on another. I'm going to back the whole thing up to my server before starting. I was wondering what the best technique to use is to ensure all partions, boot thingys and secret 'ibm restore' partions all make successfully. I really like mkcdrec for this sort of thing: http://mkcdrec.indyramp.net/project/index.html It can make a bootable CD/DVD of either your entire system, or any parts thereof. Recovery is simple -- you just boot from the CD/DVD you made and tell it to restore. I'm not 100% sure that it will handle the secret IBM restore partitions but it can be jigged to do so, most of it is in shell scripts. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Backing up before a major reorg on a laptop
Interesting topic Stuart, i am interested in this too. I have an LG laptop with the "secret restore" partition for XP. I am now ready to delete Win XP portion of the disk and reclaim that secret partition, so i'm curious to see what responses you get. vlad On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:56:59 +1100, Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > Firstly merry Xmas to one and all, thanks for your advice over the year > and I hope mine hasn't lead to too many disk reformats! > > I'm about to re-jig my laptop which due to client needs has Linux on one > partion and winXP on another. > > I'm going to back the whole thing up to my server before starting. I was > wondering what the best technique to use is to ensure all partions, boot > thingys and secret 'ibm restore' partions all make successfully. > > I've got a thinkpad X31 if that helps. I'm thinking dd which I have > never used but I'm concerned that on restore of partions 'doze will fail > to boot if I don't get everything - I mean everything backed up in the > correct manner. > > Any thoughts multo appreciato. > > Stu > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Backing up before a major reorg on a laptop
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
> I'm about to re-jig my laptop which due to client needs has Linux on one
> partion and winXP on another.
>
> I'm going to back the whole thing up to my server before starting. I was
> wondering what the best technique to use is to ensure all partions, boot
> thingys and secret 'ibm restore' partions all make successfully.
>
> I've got a thinkpad X31 if that helps. I'm thinking dd which I have
> never used but I'm concerned that on restore of partions 'doze will fail
> to boot if I don't get everything - I mean everything backed up in the
> correct manner.
>
> Any thoughts multo appreciato.
Boot it from a rescue floppy, Toms Root Boot or bootable CD or the like,
with enough network support enabled to run your card, mount a disk
remotely on your server, and DD it.
dd if=/dev/hda of= bs=1024
You'll get an error at the end when it can't count any more blocks {there
may be a way to stop this - but I'm damned if I know what it is}, but you
should get an image you can restore to the disk in total by a similar
method.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Backing up before a major reorg on a laptop
Stuart Guthrie wrote: I've got a thinkpad X31 if that helps. I'm thinking dd which I have never used but I'm concerned that on restore of partions 'doze will fail to boot if I don't get everything - I mean everything backed up in the correct manner. dd will work but take ages. ghost4unix or partition image are your two choices there I think. on the windows/dos side ghost is good, however it can break lilo a bit. It will probably do the best job however. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Backing up before a major reorg on a laptop
Hi there Firstly merry Xmas to one and all, thanks for your advice over the year and I hope mine hasn't lead to too many disk reformats! I'm about to re-jig my laptop which due to client needs has Linux on one partion and winXP on another. I'm going to back the whole thing up to my server before starting. I was wondering what the best technique to use is to ensure all partions, boot thingys and secret 'ibm restore' partions all make successfully. I've got a thinkpad X31 if that helps. I'm thinking dd which I have never used but I'm concerned that on restore of partions 'doze will fail to boot if I don't get everything - I mean everything backed up in the correct manner. Any thoughts multo appreciato. Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
