Its called tar(tape archive) its your friend. lets say you mount the drive you want to mirror at /mirrordisk to one big file named /backup/mirror.tar
cd to /mirrordisk then : tar -cvf . /backup/mirror.tar you can then compress the tar with gzip /backup/mirror.tar (which will turn /backup/mirror.tar to /backup/mirror.tar.gz (or .tgz if you specify that...) This ovcourse you will want to do as root... also... man tar This is is kind of the old fassioned way, but its extreemly effective, and isnt so hard or complicated to do. to restore the files... assuming that the disk you want to restore to is /restore, and your backup is /backup/mirror.tar.gz cd to /restore tar -xvf /mirror/backup.tar.gz . Jamie At 12:09 PM 7/5/03 -0700, you 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. > >_______________________________________________ >EuG-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
