[expert] Backups: not only for HW failures or viruses
About nine months ago I did my last backup. About three weeks ago something broke down in my PC, so I had to call the assistance to have them repair it. Three days ago the bad news: they they... THEY HAD LOST MY PC **HOW CAN SOMEONE LOSE A PC?!?!** not a portable, a miditower! WITH TWO HD INSIDE! That day I felt very bad, but this time luck helped me: they found it the day after and now I'm writing with it. Let's italian users know the brand: Olidata. From now on, backups! Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Backups: not only for HW failures or viruses
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: About nine months ago I did my last backup. ... Three days ago the bad news: they they... THEY HAD LOST MY PC ... That day I felt very bad, but this time luck helped me: they found it the day after and now I'm writing with it. ... From now on, backups! I know how you feel. I just had a catastrophic disk failure that wiped / and /home. Now I'm running backups every night to CD-RW. (It's not all bad. Now I have 160GB to play with :-)) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Backups: not only for HW failures or viruses
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:14, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: About nine months ago I did my last backup. About three weeks ago something broke down in my PC, so I had to call the assistance to have them repair it. Three days ago the bad news: they they... THEY HAD LOST MY PC **HOW CAN SOMEONE LOSE A PC?!?!** They are professionals of course! (see what outsourcing gets you *grin*) not a portable, a miditower! WITH TWO HD INSIDE! That day I felt very bad, but this time luck helped me: they found it the day after and now I'm writing with it. Let's italian users know the brand: Olidata. From now on, backups! Olaf __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] backups
On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:49, civileme wrote: On Monday 01 October 2001 07:21, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello experts I excitedly installed norton ghost (with support for my yamaha 16x cd burner) and was so happy that I could make images of my drive (ALL operating systems!) and when problems arise, reinstall everything in a matter of minutes to prestine state. My problem now is that I've migrated to XFS and I don't have that comfort know that if something happens, I can restore my system in minutes to exactly the way it was. Can someone point me to something comparable for linux using jounaling filesystems? tia, Mike See mandrakeforum. There are three packages of interest and it is probably tstill the lead article. Civileme =_1001922593-1934-1284 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks to everyone for these answers - I think I like the Partition Image program the best. It has only beta support for XFS but it seems like it has the most promise. I didn't even think about the 'dd' command; I use it all the time when I update lilo for anything to copy my bootimage so I can use the windows 2000 bootloader to boot linux. thanks again, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] backups
Hello experts I excitedly installed norton ghost (with support for my yamaha 16x cd burner) and was so happy that I could make images of my drive (ALL operating systems!) and when problems arise, reinstall everything in a matter of minutes to prestine state. My problem now is that I've migrated to XFS and I don't have that comfort know that if something happens, I can restore my system in minutes to exactly the way it was. Can someone point me to something comparable for linux using jounaling filesystems? tia, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] backups
On Monday 01 October 2001 12:21 am, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello experts I excitedly installed norton ghost (with support for my yamaha 16x cd burner) and was so happy that I could make images of my drive (ALL operating systems!) and when problems arise, reinstall everything in a matter of minutes to prestine state. My problem now is that I've migrated to XFS and I don't have that comfort know that if something happens, I can restore my system in minutes to exactly the way it was. Can someone point me to something comparable for linux using jounaling filesystems? tia, Mike Some good info here on this topic: http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1241lang=en Also, I have heard of many using tar for that kind of thing too. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] backups
On September 30, 2001 10:21 pm, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello experts I excitedly installed norton ghost (with support for my yamaha 16x cd burner) and was so happy that I could make images of my drive (ALL operating systems!) and when problems arise, reinstall everything in a matter of minutes to prestine state. My problem now is that I've migrated to XFS and I don't have that comfort know that if something happens, I can restore my system in minutes to exactly the way it was. Can someone point me to something comparable for linux using jounaling filesystems? Try using ext3 as your journaling filesystem. It has the exact same specs as ext2 with journaling as an additional layer, so I'm assuming that ghost will treat it as ext2 and copy it as such. I haven't used the latest version, so others can correct me if I'm wrong, but originally, you could mount the same fs as ext2 or ext3 and it would work either way, back and forth, with no problems. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
