----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Lim" <ricklim@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Filippos Klironomos'" <PresarioD@xxxxxxxxx>; "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: RE: Looking for backup software of complete system
The backup/restore device would be a CD-Rom drive, using the DVD or CD rom with your method how would you do a complete restore to a totally new harddrive, not even formatted properly, which could be the case.
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Filippos Klironomos Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:15 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Looking for backup software of complete system
offline.
What I have tried in the past is to clone the harddisk using the harddisk upgrade howto method, but that involves taking the machine completely offline, also cutting an image with Ghost means taking the machine
So I am not sure what your resources are, but it seems that all of the answers you've gotten up to now presuppose that you have some sort of tape drive or hard disk that you will 'dump' your filesystem on. If on the other hand you don't have such a resource then compression is an issue.
I use the good old:
tar --exclude /tmp --exclude /home/tmp czpPf <tar-ball-file-name> /
to backup my laptop and then burn the tar-balls on DVD. I had to do a system restore once and from the mounted DVD you just do:
tar xzpPf <tar-ball-file>
and you are done. In one single DVD I can fit four system backups (one every month) but of course the process is slower when reading from the DVD so usually I keep a copy of the last backup tar-ball on the disk.
F.
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You could check out mondo rescue - I tried it at work and it seems to do exactly what you're asking for.
Bry
