backup entire system

[Michael Havens]

I started partmage <or something> and found out that my filesystem is ext3.
I don't know why I thought that. I only heard that Mint was ext4. oops

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 13:42 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> I got things just the way I want them. How do I make a mirror image
> of my
> > >> hard drive?
> >
> > This is usually the wrong way to approach backups.[0]  What if your disk
> dies,
> > and you need to restore your stuff onto a disk with a different size?[1]
> > You'll have to mount the images loopback and cp everything over, which
> makes
> > things less simple than you want.
>
> I would have to agree.  I have used several, but most of my experience
> is in networked environments where I generally use BackupPC.  It works
> awesome, and provides a webpage resore process per user/node.
>
> This would work with a central storage system, not so great with a
> removable drive system, but it could be used this way.
>
> Take a look
>
> Kevin
>
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