On 01/10/2007, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am preparing to backup my root drive in preparation > for installing f7. What is the best way to do this? > > I have in /dev/hda as: > > /boot = /dev/hda1 > / = /dev/hda2 > > I have backed up /boot with: tar zcvpf /boot.tgz /boot I'm not sure why you care about backing up /boot - certainly it would be unwise to restore this when you have installed F7! > > But have get to figure out how to get /dev/hda2 backed up without > picking up the other drives mounted on / > rsync is your friend. man rsync. rsync -avr SOURCEDIR DESTDIR - this is assuming you have your backup disk mounted.
