2009/1/7 Jai Harrison <[email protected]>: > I have an external 1 terabyte HDD and would like to back up my Ubuntu > system onto it for easy restoration later if I accidentally wipe the > internal drive or it fails. Unfortunately my external HDD is using > NTFS format (because I would like to be able to allow Windows users to > access the drive whilst also storing >4gig files making fat32 > impossible). > > My question is is there a way I can back up my entire system onto an > NTFS system understanding that it doesn't support Unix permissions or > filenames (a lot of characters are illegal on NTFS). Or will I have to > resize my NTFS partition on the external drive and create an ext3 on > alongside it for storage? >
backup-manager is your friend. Install then (optionally) edit /etc/backup-manager.conf and set BM_REPOSITORY_ROOT to the path to your target folder, and set BM_ARCHIVE_METHOD to (optionally) "tarball-incremental". Each day it will run and backup your system. You'll get a full backup on a Saturday, and incrementals (only changes since Saturday through the week. I use it for backing up a bunch of machines over the network to the network attached storage device whose name I am not allowed to utter. By default it will only backup /home and /etc, but you can change that too. Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
