backup entire system

Brian Parma freecode at cox.net
Thu Dec 29 00:31:30 MST 2011


You might want to look at fsarchiver instead of clonezilla/partimage, 
it's more up-to-date.

On 12/28/2011 08:53 AM, Stephen wrote:
>
> Clomezill will do network file systems quite nicely.
>
> On Dec 28, 2011 1:47 AM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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