backup entire system

[Michael Havens]

Well, unfortunately I can't use System Rescue CD or Redo Backup and
Recovery because I only have one drive.

On Tue, Dec  2011 at 11:29 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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