Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 01:11 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and > restore of > the mbr. > > And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems > when the new > harddisk has a different size? > Just tar up

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
> why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore > of > the mbr. > > And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the > new > harddisk has a different size? > Just tar up everything. > > Ok, so is this correct? Backup with tar; 1. boot from c

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 14 August 2010, Adam Carter wrote: > This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look? > > File systems; > /dev/sda1 - /boot > /dev/sda2 - swap > /dev/sda3 - / > > So to backup; > 1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda > of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 co

[gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look? File systems; /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda2 - swap /dev/sda3 - / So to backup; 1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1 2. Get /boot: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/otherdisk/sda1.bin 3. Get /