I know that I should backup /home before installing 9.2, but what is the
best way to do this?
I have a CD-RW drive, but have never used it except as CD-Rom! Would it
be best to do backups on CD-R or CD-RW?
Alternatively, I have some private web space - can I just FTP a copy of
/home
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:35:29 +0100
Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I know that I should backup /home before installing 9.2, but what is
the best way to do this?
I have a CD-RW drive, but have never used it except as CD-Rom! Would
it be best to do backups on CD-R or CD-RW?
Before upgrading I normally backup on CD-RW and use diff to verify the
burning process. (diff is a command line program that compares two files
or directories. I'm sure KDE or Gnome have graphical equivalents)
There are several graphical front ends to burn CDs: Gnome-toaster,
Xcdroast,
HaywireMac wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:35:29 +0100
Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I know that I should backup /home before installing 9.2, but what is
the best way to do this?
I have a CD-RW drive, but have never used it except as CD-Rom! Would
it be best to do backups on CD-R or CD-RW?
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:17:45 +0100
Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
As you can see, I've got plenty of space at the moment, but it seems
to me it would be more useful to have a larger /home.
Holy shite! You could easily pack your whole /home partition onto one
CD, LOL!
Ya, just tar it all up
Margot wrote:
Here it is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% /
/dev/hda6 8.1G 730M 7.4G 9% /home
[EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$
As you can see, I've got plenty of space at the moment, but it
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Each to their own, but I would not have so much space devoted to one
task. Much more convenient to measure out your hard drive into
practicable spare partitions, with seperate mount points.Then you can
use
Before upgrading I normally backup on CD-RW and use diff to verify
the burning process. (diff is a command line program that compares
two files or directories. I'm sure KDE or Gnome have graphical
equivalents)
I usu make a tar file of what i want backed up, then burn that.
Only works if you
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:00:33 -0700
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
# root because i backup /etc
if test `whoami` != root; then
echo `whoami`, you have to be root
exit
fi
BACK_PATH=/stuff/backup
FILENAME=cudaback
FULLPATH=$BACK_PATH/$FILENAME
tar -cf $FULLPATH.tar
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
some snippage
nice --18 mkisofs -r $FULLPATH.tar | cdrecord -v -eject fs=6m
speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data -
This should be one line.
Sure, make us all look like bloody dumbass amateurs... ;-)
:) I am still learning bash, so it took some time...
I
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:21:56 -0700
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Well, it'll be good for a little while. My /home is closing in on
700MB, so the complexity of the script will go up. Unless, of
course, i start compressing, too.
700MB?! LOL! Mine is like 25GB, what with all the music
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Hi all,
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:27:40 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote about Re: [newbie] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Each to their own, but I
HaywireMac wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:47:11 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Each to their own, but I would not have so much space devoted to one
task. Much more convenient to measure out your hard drive into
practicable spare partitions, with seperate mount points.Then
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, HaywireMac wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:21:56 -0700
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Well, it'll be good for a little while. My /home is closing in on
700MB, so the complexity of the script will go up. Unless, of
course, i start compressing, too.
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:36 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
P.S. do *not* download Reign of Fire, sux big time. Movie about dragons
and ya get to see about 3... :-\
Ah man, I liked that movie...
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