On Wednesday 29 May 2002 17:30, you wrote:
Thanks Derek,
I've found drakbackup and I am downloading right now Mondo.
One thing puzzles me though. I can see how these programmes can
from the desktop so to speak create backup files , and I can see
how they might write to disc from
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On Wednesday 29 May 2002 1:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS
backups.
It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create
compressed multi CD writes.
So how do you
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Well in the case of Mondo the first CD in the set it creates is a
bootable CD with its own mini Linux distro on it. You just boot
from that CD and then you can restore partions,directories or the
entire installation. Trouble with Mondo is it needs 7 CD's for my
system so I cannot
I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS
backups.
It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create
compressed multi CD writes.
So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore.
The only utility I know of is dump , it's command line,
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 1:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS
backups.
It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create
compressed multi CD writes.
So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote:
So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore.
Two solutions for you , John
1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
It is on your CD's but I think the latest version is better. It
will comoress and copy your image to
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote:
So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore.
Two solutions for you , John
1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
It is on your CD's but I think the latest
Are you running the Beta version of drakbackup Jerry?
I'm running version 1.0 from drakxtools-1.1.7-98.1mdk and it does not offer
CD backup, but I notice the changelog says some 'unstable features' were
removed in January to satisfy Mandrake QA
Sorry no idea about toto.
derek
On Wednesday
