backup entire system

[Michael Havens]

you know.... I want to clone my drive because I thought you really

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:55 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> I have cloned and restored 2464720174+1 systems with:
> rsync -vaxHXY --checksum /path1 /path2 /path3 someone at 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 at 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~(-:
>>
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