On Friday 19 November 2004 12:28, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 18:28 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > > But it failed to backup by ghost 8.0 > > So I am finding a best way to backup it up to my FC3 to a image file > > to windows server. > > Don't know about "a best way", but g4u has been highly recommended on > the list - http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ - no personal experience. > > I'd tend to go with a compressed tar archive of each partition to a smb- > mounted Windoze share. > > tar zclf /windoze/dir/root.tgz / > tar zclf /windoze/dir/boot.tgz /boot > tar zclf /windoze/dir/usr.tgz /usr > tar zclf /windoze/dir/home.tgz /home There's lotsa ways. I'd not use that one, I'd create one tarball of everything: tar cjlf /windoz/backups/${HOSTNAME}-backup.tar.bz2 -C / boot home var usr which makes it easier to untar into a different partitioning scheem cd /;mkisofs -o /windows.bvackups/${HOSTNAME}-backup.iso -R -joliet etc Watch your file sizes with that one. ISO9660 doesn't like big files. To take less space I've been playing with this recently. Windows isn't involved, but that's a minor detail: #!/bin/bash -xe [ -d /mnt/backup ] || mkdir /mnt/backup umount /mnt/backup || : rm -fr /root/backup.img /var/tmp/backup dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/backup.img count=0 bs=1024 \ seek=$((3*1024*1024)) ls -shog /root/backup.img mke2fs -Fq /root/backup.img mount -o loop /root/backup.img /mnt/backup/ tar clC / --exclude=backup.img --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/var/tmp . \ | buffer -m $((2*1024*1024)) -p 75\ | tar xpC /mnt/backup ls -go /mnt/backup rm /root/backup.img mkzftree --one-filesystem /mnt/backup/ /var/tmp/backup umount /mnt/backup/ mkisofs -R -z -quiet -nobak -o /var/tmp/backup-${HOSTNAME}.iso /var/tmp/backup rm -rf /var/tmp/backup ls -hog /var/tmp/backup* scp -p /var/tmp/backup-${HOSTNAME}.iso backup.office.lan:/var/local/backups Uf you need understanding with that, best learn to man. This last ISO can only be read directly on Linux; on other platforms you need to unpack wih mkzftree. If this matters, put it (and runtime libraries for it) in the ISO. If you don't like these, hie yourself off to dar.sf.net. It doesn't of itself involve Windows either, but placement of backup images is only a minor detail. Lotsa ways. - Cheers John
