On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:02 AM, <gms...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > promac wrote: > > [ > You can do this way, but ideally your file system should be unmounted (boot > from > a live CD/DVD). > > I, personally, use BackupPC for /home and partimage for the file system (/ > and /boot). > > -- > Paulo Roma Cavalcanti > LCG - UFRJ > ] > > Would someone please tell how to use partimage to backup whole fedora 10 > system in detail? > > rpm -qa | grep partimage > partimage-0.6.7-5.fc10.i386
Please, read: /usr/share/doc/partimage-0.6.7/README.partimage.html > > > I also downloaded systemrescuecd and burned it. > But can't use it to backup whole fedora 10 system(actually I don't know how > to use it) > Booting this cd can't find graphical option. Try "xinit" > fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x29032902 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 1912 15358108+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/sda2 1913 9449 60540952+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda3 9450 9729 2249100 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sda5 1913 5609 29696121 b W95 FAT32 > /dev/sda6 5610 8286 21502971 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 8287 9449 9341766 83 Linux > > I am trying to backup /dev/sda6 partition. > Is it necessary to backup the /proc , /sys, /lost+found , /media, /mnt, > directory to be backed up? > > Is it possible to backup /dev/sda6 partition excluding these > directory(/proc , /sys, /lost+found , /media, /mnt,) with partimage or > systemrescuecd? > Partimage will make a copy of the whole partition. You cannot exclude anything. > > If I copy the whole /dev/sda6 partition in a portable hard disk(250GB),then > after reinstalling minimum fedora 10 and copy-paste that /dev/sda6 from the > portable hard disk to the newly installed fedora 10's root (/) directory > ,will it work ? > In fact, you do not need to reinstall. You can use / and /boot (if it is in its own partition) from your backup. Generally, you just need to adapt grub.conf, fstab in some cases and/or run mkinitrd to recreate the initial initrd img. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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