Backups - Was: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:29 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: anyway, I had JUST LAST WEEK created a clonezilla backup on another partition ! it took me about 3 tries to figure out which menus and how to do the restore ( I almost said YES to wiping out my entire 2nd drive), but I finally got it,

Re: Backups - Was: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:29 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: anyway, I had JUST LAST WEEK created a clonezilla backup on another partition ! This is not a backup by definition! A backup has to be done on an independent device, even not to another HDD that is mounted inside of the computer.

Re: Backups - Was: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/10/2014 04:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Clonezilla, rsync etc. do work, but why spending that much brain power for learning and/or trial and error? HDDs are inexpensive nowadays, so I prefer to do a simple tar.gz from another Linux install, without any kind of smart sync. I simply backup

Re: Backups - Was: clonezilla WORKS !

2014-01-10 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/10/2014 4:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS: On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:29 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: anyway, I had JUST LAST WEEK created a clonezilla backup on another partition ! This is not a backup by definition! A backup has to be done on an independent device, even not to another