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]
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