Re: Backups - Was: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/10/2014 4:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS: On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:29 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: anyway, I had JUST LAST WEEK created a clonezilla backup on another partition ! This is not a backup by definition! A backup has to be done on an independent device, even not to another HDD

Re: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread D.E. Bil
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I am running wheezy amd_64 .. remind me to NOT add experimental to my > sources ever again!! I've been running testing/unstable with a dash of experimental for almost as long as I've been running Debian GNU/Linux - six years maybe?

Re: Backups - Was: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/10/2014 04:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Clonezilla, rsync etc. do work, but why spending that much brain power > for learning and/or trial and error? HDDs are inexpensive nowadays, so I > prefer to do a simple tar.gz from another Linux install, without any > kind of smart sync. I simply backu

Re: Backups - Was: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:29 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > anyway, I had JUST LAST WEEK created a clonezilla backup on another > partition ! This is not a backup by definition! A backup has to be done on an independent device, even not to another HDD that is mounted inside of the computer. U

Backups - Was: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:29 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > anyway, I had JUST LAST WEEK created a clonezilla backup on another > partition ! it took me about 3 tries to figure out which menus and how > to do the restore ( I almost said YES to wiping out my entire 2nd > drive), but I finally got it

clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Paul Cartwright
well, I can affirmatively say that clonezilla works. I was "messing around " trying to install some stupid ( humble bundle) games, and the directions ( quick fix) said to add an experimental source, then , well here are the instructions: