baggab wrote: > I need a pointer to a mirroring strategy, similar to Ghost. How are people > backing up their systems? > > My system has a 40 GB HD with RH 8.0 in the 1st 25%, Knoppix in the 2nd 25%. > I want to mirror these two partitions into the other 50% of the drive. Then > I can tinker with the two OS's.
The lowest-tech way to do it would be to create more partitions, then use dd every once in a while to copy the working partitions to the backup partition. For example, if your working / filesystem is /dev/hda1, and you want to copy it to /dev/hda6 (and hda6 is at least as big as hda1), do this. # dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda6 bs=64k There are more complex, nicer solutions available, but to discuss them we'd need to discuss what you want out of your backups. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug