well, I am almost ready to repartition my drive. But I have a question to get opinions on; what is the difference between reiser4 and ext4? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each? On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Stephen wrote: > In an effort to simplify, Cloning your drive is not a bad thing to do. > however for regular backups i will stress that you want rsync handy. > > Me personally i would clone the drive, probably via clonezilla via ftp > or smb to one of your other machines. once done get the gparted > livecd, boot that and then make the needed changes to your disk > structure. > > then i would see about creating a sort of mesh of your home directory > between the machines you use for files via rsync so all your machines > would have the same files between them and you would have a guaranteed > redundancy (barring total obliteration of your residence, but then you > can work on offsite storage from there) > > That initial disk image will allow you a very quick restore then you > can rsync the delta from that initial image to your current running > state. > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:34 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com > wrote: > > Save the current checksum value of your files: > > # >/tmp/files.md5 > > # find / -xdev \( -path /tmp -o -path /var/tmp \) -prune -o -type f \ > > # -exec md5sum "{}" \; >>/tmp/files.md5 > > > > Validate that they haven't changed: > > # cd / > > # md5sum -c /tmp/files.md5 > > (This is what the --checksum option of rsync does) > > SAVE /tmp/files.md5 SOMEWHERE ELSE, most systems will cleanup /tmp on > every > > boot. > > > > To "replicate your system": > > Boot the boxes with a CD (Debian live works good and is lite, no "X"): > > # sudo -i > > # apt-get install ssh > > # mount -text4 /dev/sda1 /mnt > > (You'll need to create partitions and filesystems on the "other" box) > > And from your box: > > # rsync -vaxHXY --checksum --super / root@otherbox:/mnt > > On the other box: > > You'll most likely need to adjust the /etc/fstab file because most > distros > > use UUID and they will not match, although that's an entirely different > > subject altogether. > > Quick and dirty options are: > > .- Build the new filesystems with the same UUID(s), > > .- Change the /etc/fstab to match the new UUID(s) or, > > .- use absolute devices (/dev/sda1) to mount the drives. > > I think that RedHat still uses labels, which renders the same solution > after > > you replace "UUID" with "label". > > Finally on your "other" box > > (DO NOT DO THIS ON "your" BOX UNLES YOU *KNOW* what you are doing) > > # grub-install /dev/sda > > And now you should be able to boot your other box like your own. > > > > Of course there are only 731598564385+1 variations and applications of > the > > recipe above. You have there all the information you need to "solve the > > problem", now you need to "define the problem" an reshuffle the > instructions > > above to fit the shoe. > > For more info (on EVERYTHING) go read: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ > > Enjoy... > > ET > > > > > > > > Michael Havens writes: > >> > >> I was wondering... I wanted to clone my hard drive because I need to > >> repartiton it to make it smaller. Do I really need to worry about the > data > >> getting corrupted? If I do need to worry about it is the data > recoverable > >> if something happens to it? > >> > >> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Michael Havens > wrote: > >>> > >>> you know.... I want to clone my drive because I thought you really > >>> Dec 29, 2011 at 3:55 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I have cloned and restored 2464720174+1 systems with: > >>>> rsync - need to vaxHXY --checksum /path1 /path2 /path3 > >>>> someone@remotebox:/mybackup > >>>> The 'x' constrain the sweep to a partition to avoid memory directories > >>>> (/proc, /dev, /sys) which forces to explicitly name every mounted > >>>> directory > >>>> to copy. > >>>> Then you can 'restore' with: > >>>> rsync -vaxHXY --checksum someone@remotebox:/mybackup / > >>>> All the options are important (except '-v'), but specially '-H' *HAS* > to > >>>> be there if you are cloning directories with kernel files or the > >>>> resulting > >>>> system will eventually become unstable. > >>>> Free advise, can't sue me... :) > >>>> YMMV > >>>> ET > >>>> PS: If you have any question, > >>>> you will get any answer. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Michael Havens writes: > >>>>> > >>>>> I got things just the way I want them. How do I make a miiror image > of > >>>>> my > >>>>> hard drive? dd? Or is there a more user friendly way? I kinda want to > >>>>> do > >>>>> it > >>>>> like a raid would do it. You know.... where I would just recopy the > >>>>> image > >>>>> if my computer gets corrupted and it would be like the day I made the > >>>>> image...... hmmmm.... google it! I found system rescue cd! ( > >>>>> > >>>>> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_**Page< > http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page>) > >>>>> DOes this sound good? What do you all > >>>>> recommend? You know, on the first page about this one of the programs > >>>>> is > >>>>> partimage and they say that one of the limitations of it is that it > >>>>> does > >>>>> not support ext4 filesystem. hmmmmm.... after a bit of reading me > >>>>> thinks > >>>>> this doesn't work with ext4 even though the 'Main Page' says it does. > >>>>> Do > >>>>> any of you know any differently?..... hmmmmm..... I've been looking > but > >>>>> all > >>>>> of the copy programs say they support ext2 & 3 but not 4. What do > you > >>>>> say? > >>>>> -- > >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: > >>>> > >>>> ------------------------------**--------------------- > >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - > >>>> PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us< > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> > >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >>>> > >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss< > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: