On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: > On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >> Probably a dumb one, but... >> >> I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions... >> >> If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case' >> something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /, >> since /etc is located there? >> >> In other words, is anything on /usr or /var touched during this update? >> >> > If you want to be reeaallyyy safe, and want an image and not a > backup, grab the latest copy of SystemRescueCd, a couple of TB of usb > external drive space, which is very cheap these days, and use partImage to > grab a true image of your whole system. I started doing this recently and > it's saved me once so far. Things "flew apart big time" for me recently, a > disk failure, I rebooted into the rescue cd and hey presto, 30 minutes > later, everything was good. > > Andrew > > Another tool which will work well is dd. as an example to back up my laptop before experimenting with new distros, I do dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup/jalopy.img bs=2M to back up the drive for a bare metal restore of the 40 GB hard drive.
James Wall
