backup entire system

[Michael Havens]

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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> you know.... I want to clone my drive because I thought you really
> 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 - need to 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?
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