OfflineI want to create a backup for myself. How to do this? Disk CLoning software?
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TP t20 700mhz/384mb/12hd ubuntu 6.10
How to backup data and OS
Posted on: Fri, 2007-03-02 18:13
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If you want a complete backup with everything I think PartImage would be a good solution.
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You can use a tool like tar, to back up each of your filesystems, and then use blowfish to encrypt it. This would let you keep compressed files of each of your filesystems, like /etc, /, /var etc...
Then you can compress your /home filesystem and keep all of your files.
This way, if any of them fail you can just replace them.
There's more to FOSS than GNU
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That works, but PartImage is easier and probably faster.
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what's wrong with dd ?
Thomas Jollans
GnuPG key: 1024D/A6B5 9461 B60F 2C80 2399 6B1E 2698 A70E F421 434B
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what's wrong with dd ?
Perhaps that you haven't written a newbie friendly explanation of how to use it yet?
Also, it's not very space efficient.
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It copies everything, including empty space. PartImage skips over that.
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Here's my list of links in my website. Hope it helps.
Backups - HowTo
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html (Linux Backups mini-FAQ)
http://madpenguin.org/Article1505.html (ssh, tar, cron)
http://www.tpci.com/linux_backup_software.htm (Linux Backup Softwares)
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ (rsync)
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2004/article326.shtml (rsync)
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/ (Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO)
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/backup-and-restore.html (Backup and Restore Procedures)
Sheng-Chieh
Linux Documentation Links
http://shengchieh.50webs.com/index.html
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Yes, partimage is great, I was trying out FreeBSD so I did a backup of Windows partition to install FreeBSD there. Partimage backuped 7GB of data from a 15GB partition in about 20 minutes and compressed it down to 2.5GB. After I was done playing with FreeBSD I restored Windows, it took only about 20 minutes again. Very good tool.
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still wrapping around this issue.
TP t20 700mhz/384mb/12hd ubuntu 6.10
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Partlmage is definitely the simplest solution...or you could burn everything to a dvd lol...or should I say an expensive bluray disc or HD-DVD...
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Well, with the Linux-Live-scripts you could make a LiveCD/-DVD of it. Compression isn't bad, my whole system, which takes up around 10GB, would be compressed down to the size of a single-layer DVD, around 4GB.
Best thing is that you can even boot and use it.
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