Re: Backup Applications WAS - Re: [newbie] Backups
Chris wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 03:31 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] var]$ gzip -l --name --verbose backup_incr_user_chris_20030630_171205.tar.gz method crc date time compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name defla 2cda29fa Jun 30 17:12 -1976868556 -1739046912 0.0% backup_incr_user_chris_20030630_171205.tar Not likely if tar has a usable limit of 2GB. So it appears from the replies I've gotten so far that drakbackup is useless when backing up a /home partition that is anything other than very small. Is this a correct assumption? If so, has anyone any suggestions for a backup app that will work and work well with Mandrake? Thanks Use partimage. Get it on the gentoo disc that you can download from their website. You will need a spare partition to create the image file in and if you want you can write that image to CD in a writer. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Backup Applications WAS - Re: [newbie] Backups
On Saturday 05 July 2003 09:35 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Use partimage. Get it on the gentoo disc that you can download from their website. You will need a spare partition to create the image file in and if you want you can write that image to CD in a writer. John John, I urpmi'd and installed partimage, however, looking at it I can't see anyway to specify which directories in /home/chris I want to backup. There are some such as my mp3 dir that I don't need backed up. I did find another app called Backerupper that does let you specify which directories and files to backup and which to ignore. It seems to work pretty well, uses zip for compression and is fast. I just have to work out the problem with my cron event not making the archive correctly. Manually it works great. Thanks for the suggestion Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:22pm up 14 days, 1:35, 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
