Quoting Philippe Landau
What can a simple user use to backup his installation ?
External USB,eSATA,Firewire hard disk. Use System Rescue CD and dd to copy entire partitions to hard disk. This is for bare metal restore. Use rsnapshot (which uses rsync) for daily/weekly/monthly/etc. backups. Before you do a clean install or maybe even an update, be sure to do another copy with dd of the overwritten partitions to the external hard drive. Note: partition copies can be mounted with the loop devices so you can get at the files on them. Unless you are backing up everything with the daily backups, you will find that something needed is not backed up. Oh, and check those partition backups with md5sum or by mounting them on a loop device and running the file system check on them, e.g. e2fschk. HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org