On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:55 AM,
kitepilot@kitepilot.com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
I have cloned and restored 2464720174+1 systems with:
rsync -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) 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?
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