On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:40 -0500, 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
I'd like to hear what others say about "cloning" methods. But just to stick my two cents in, if you wanted to clone, I would suggest using dd rather than rsync. And then just dd the entire partition by block records. Depending on what additional options you would want to use, the basic syntax would be: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/WhereverYouAreBackingUpTo/ (where if is your source and of is your destination) But if you're only interested in data backup, then rsync is probably your best bet. -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org