just create the bootable portion of the 1TB disk and use rsync to copy the data -- you can even set it up across different systems. So one computer can be at your house, the other at your office. that reduces the risk by geographically separating the disks.
________________________________ From: "Andres Montiel, CUA" <[email protected]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, June 27, 2011 9:13:15 AM Subject: Re: [plug] Back up 500GB drive to a partition on another drive on the same computer Thanks everyone for the tips. I read about dd (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DriveImaging) and the Wikipedia entry linked below. Now I know that I'm looking for something that can do live copying and (as per my understanding) dd is able to do this. However, would anyone know of a GUI-based solution? I'm not well-versed with the command line and would rather fiddle with a GUI. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and SimpleBackupSuite seems attractive. However, the wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/SimpleBackupSuite) noted 48 open bugs so I was hoping there are other, more stable options. :) On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM, fooler mail <[email protected]> wrote: this will guide you for your needs... > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_cloning_software > >fooler. > > >On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Andres Montiel, CUA <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a headless Ubuntu server acting primarily as a file server. It has 2 >> hard drives - a primary 500GB drive and a recently added 1TB drive. The 1TB >> drive is partitioned to 2, each having 500GB. >> >> The 500GB - the bootable disk - houses around 8 years of photos and movies. >> I want to back up the primary 500GB drive to one of the partitions on the >> 1TB disk. However, I want the backup to be bootable (probably as an image?) >> so that I can easily restore the main 500GB should anything happen to it. >> >> I was thinking of Clonezilla perhaps, and saving the image to one of the >> partitions on the 1TB. However, this would mean that I would have to restart >> the machine, boot via a USB disk, etc. Since this machine is on 24/7, I was >> hoping that there is a way to back up the main drive without any downtime (a >> cron job perhaps?). I tried Googling for a solution, but I may have used >> wrong search terms because I wasn't able to find anything useful. >> >> Any tips on how to solve this would be appreciated. :) >> > >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> >_________________________________________________ >Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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