On Saturday 08 December 2007 08:10:40 am Billie Walsh wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to do a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a "clone" of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If not, can I copy everything and then boot it from the DVD? Again, if not, and I just want a backup of everything, must I partition the new drive exactly as the original drive and rsync the partitions individually?
I am thinking hard drive failure (could take it out of the enclosure and replace the failed internal disk with it) as well as file corruption backups. Used to use Kdar for backups but it isn't supported for 10.3 Was always worried about a reinstall after a hard drive failure with all of the extra stuff I have installed.
Bob S
Just a suggestion.
I've been playing around with Mondo Rescue. [ http://www.mondorescue.org/ ] It's not exactly what your thinking of doing. It makes a CD/DVD set that will boot and reinstall your system EXACTLY as it was when the set was made. Then you could use a smaller backup set to replace any changes.
Thanks for the suggestion Billie. I used Mondo/Mindi way back in SuSE 8 days. Yes it made a faithful bootable copy of the system. Once you made it though, it hung around for 6 months or so because you didn't want to do that very often. Things change drastically in that 6 month period with updates and file data so there is still the problem of incremental backups. I think that I would like something that does it all at once. Hence my question to the list. I think that "Mike", one of the original proponents for Mondo/Mindi for SuSE still lurks on this list. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org