Mark, Thanks for the tip. I looked at dump some time ago and rejected it for reasons I can't remember. I'll look at it again.
Robin On Nov 30, 2007 1:49 PM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/30/07, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > When I installed Debian 4.0 I created a big, non-encrypted partition > for > > everything except /boot using Logical Volume Management. This seems to > > have created problems for some backup programs: e.g. sbackup worked for > a > > while and then just quit, mondorescue failed because it couldn't find > "valid > > partition tables" for /dev /etc. > > > > But I think I have a simple, elegant solution! While my internal HD > has > > 160GB only about 12GB are used. In addition I have an 80GB external HD. > I > > just use cp -au. It's easy to do, fast and it doesn't require my > esternal > > HD to be running all the time. I run my external HD only when I backup > in > > hopes that is will out live my internal HD. > > > > Any comments? > > If you are just backing up your files, cp or rsync work fine. > > If you want to back up your filesystem, dump is where it's at! > > You can 'dump' your entire filesystem and store it in one file (that > is the size of all of your files combined) Then if your disk crashes, > you can 'restore' your entire filesystem, and you computer won't even > know the difference! > > I'm not a good source for how to use dump, as I've never properly > learned myself, but I believe it can also do incremental backups as > well. The dump man page is full of useful information though. > > http://dump.sourceforge.net > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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