Libervis Network - For a Free WorldLibervis Projects | Nuxified Projects
Welcome guest. Register | Login | Show what's new

How to backup data and OS

How to backup data and OS

I want to create a backup for myself. How to do this? Disk CLoning software?

__________________

TP t20 700mhz/384mb/12hd ubuntu 6.10


If you want a complete

If you want a complete backup with everything I think PartImage would be a good solution.

You can use a tool like

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 Eye-wink

ehh

That works, but PartImage is easier and probably faster.

__________________

Disclaimer: My posts may change (dramatically) within the first 15 minutes they're posted.

what's wrong with dd ?

what's wrong with dd ?

dd
free-zombie wrote:

what's wrong with dd ?

Perhaps that you haven't written a newbie friendly explanation of how to use it yet? Eye-wink

Also, it's not very space efficient.

__________________

CAN I HAS FIXD CAPSLOK KEE PLZ?

copies emptiness

It copies everything, including empty space. PartImage skips over that.

__________________

Disclaimer: My posts may change (dramatically) within the first 15 minutes they're posted.

list of links

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

partimage is great

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.

thanks

still wrapping around this issue.

__________________

TP t20 700mhz/384mb/12hd ubuntu 6.10

Partlmage is definitely the

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...

Well, with the

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.

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

We have 3845 members who wrote 2063 articles and 11938 comments. Welcome to our newest member, hutopire!

Who's online

There are currently 0 users and 10 guests online.
Nuxified RSS feed