This might sound like heresy, but it can save your bacon in case of a totalled disk & get you running again in no time. Norton Ghost (DOS application) will back up whole disk or partition images to a spare hdd, zip, SCSI tape drive. In case of disk/partition loss the bitwise image can be resored with a simple DOS boot disk with a copy of the Ghost executable. You don't need DOS on your hdds. <ducks ready for incoming flames>. -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas R LeRoy [SMTP:nick.leroy@norland.com] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 3:03 PM To: Keith Warno; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] backing up a partition On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, Keith Warno wrote:
Hello list.
Anyone have an idea on how to backup the contents of a _partition_? I'm thinking maybe I could use dd but I'm not sure.
For example, I would like to backup everything that resides on /dev/hda2.
Ideas/suggestions much appreciated, as always.
Hello..
I used to do just this with a zip drive.. I created a 'root' filesystem
on a zip cartridge, mounted it as /mnt and then did a 'tar' copy like
this:
# cd /
# tar cfl - . | ( cd /mnt; tar xfSpB - )
Done. You can then make a boot floppy that boots directly off the zip,
too.
I might have edited the zip's /etc/fstab to note the new '/' filesystem.
Worked like a charm. I quit going through the effort, though, because
I just haven't had problems to make the effort worth while. :-)
Later
-Nick
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