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The Saturday 2007-12-08 at 21:25 -0800, Ti Kan wrote:
I find that dd for bare metal backups is dependable. Rsnapshot is fast
and convenient for incremental backups and restores. There are other
solutions that work.
The downside of dd is that
On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:51, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
The disk needs to be partitioned before doing a restore with dd. It copies
partitions, not disks. It makes partition images, not disk images.
This is true if to copy partition, but dd can copy entire disks as well. No
Quoting Don Raboud [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:51, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
The disk needs to be partitioned before doing a restore with dd. It copies
partitions, not disks. It makes partition images, not disk images.
This is true if to copy partition, but dd can
On Friday 07 December 2007 11:40:26 pm Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to
do a complete and full backup.
Many thanks to all of you who supplied info and advice. I guess now that I
have to do some investigation on all of
On Saturday 08 December 2007 06:44:06 Rodney Baker wrote:
Rsync is better for doing things like incremental backups. I use a
home-grown script run from a cron job to do a nightly backup of my home
directory to a second hdd on the same machine. It isn't a pretty script (in
fact, it's pretty
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 07:10 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote:
SNIP
It takes three programs, Mindi, Mindi Busybox, and Mondo. Get the
rpm's from Mondo Rescue to install. One portion is missing from the SuSE
repos. You start it from CLI then get this rather DOS(y) looking GUI.
Not exactly
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to do
a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a clone of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If
not,
can I copy everything and then boot it from the DVD? Again, if not,
Quoting Bob S [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to do
a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a clone of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If
not,
can I copy everything and then boot it from the
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The Saturday 2007-12-08 at 16:14 +1030, Rodney Baker wrote:
I agree. dd will allow you to copy an entire partition block by block. This is
good if you are replacing a hard drive and want to keep the partition layout
the same.
Which means that
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to do
a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a clone of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If not,
can I copy everything and then boot it from the DVD? Again, if not, and I
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 09:58 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote:
Bryen wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 07:10 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote:
SNIP
It takes three programs, Mindi, Mindi Busybox, and Mondo. Get the
rpm's from Mondo Rescue to install. One portion is missing from the SuSE
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Dave Cotton wrote:
On Saturday 08 December 2007 06:44:06 Rodney Baker wrote:
Rsync is better for doing things like incremental backups. I use a
home-grown script run from a cron job to do a nightly backup of my home
directory to a second hdd on the same machine. It isn't
Bryen wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 07:10 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote:
SNIP
It takes three programs, Mindi, Mindi Busybox, and Mondo. Get the
rpm's from Mondo Rescue to install. One portion is missing from the SuSE
repos. You start it from CLI then get this rather DOS(y) looking
On 12/08/2007 Bryen wrote:
A bug doesn't just mean something is broken. Although, if that
component is considered important, I would consider the fact that it
is
missing as broken. It could have been filed as an enhancement or as a
heads up to whomever packaged it.
You have a point there.
On Saturday 08 December 2007 09:38, Billie Walsh wrote:
...
Perhaps someone that doesn't have it installed could look to see
which repository it's in. From the looks of one file I wonder if it
might be on the distribution disk.
Here's a shocker.
Repository Name: MondoRescue
Server:
Rodney Baker wrote:
rsync --logfile=/var/log/home_backup -Ca /home/username /backup/username.
This just compares each file in /home/usersname with its corresponding file
in /backup/username and copies any that are new or have changed, resetting
the archive bit for each file.
Not to
On 12/08/2007 Randall R Schulz wrote:
Here's a shocker.
Repository Name: MondoRescue
Server: download.opensuse.org
Directory: /repositories/Archiving:/Backup:/MondoRescue/openSUSE_10.3
It contains all three primary packages as well as several ancillary
ones.
Randall Schulz
When I was
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 16:45 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote:
On 12/08/2007 Randall R Schulz wrote:
Here's a shocker.
Repository Name: MondoRescue
Server: download.opensuse.org
Directory: /repositories/Archiving:/Backup:/MondoRescue/openSUSE_10.3
It contains all three primary packages
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Joe Sloan wrote:
Rodney Baker wrote:
rsync --logfile=/var/log/home_backup -Ca /home/username
/backup/username.
This just compares each file in /home/usersname with its corresponding
file in /backup/username and copies any that are new or have changed,
resetting the
On Friday 07 December 2007 11:40:26 pm Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to
do a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a clone of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If
not, can I copy everything and then boot
On Saturday 08 December 2007 08:10:40 am Billie Walsh wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like
to do a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a clone of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If
not, can I
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 23:09 -0500, Bob S wrote:
Replying to myself here so I can reply to all of the folks who were kind
enough to answer my query. Thanks Bryen, Rodney, Carlos, Joe, Otto.. Jeffrey,
Billie, etc.
Your replies lead to more questions, As I stated previously, I would like
Quoting Bob S [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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Your replies lead to more questions, As I stated previously, I would like to
do an all in one if possible. Bootable and incrementaly up to date.
Will dd build a bootable disk? Can that clone be updated by rsync to
make it current?
Yes, dd can
Jeffrey L. Taylor writes:
Will dd build a bootable disk?
Yes, dd can build a bootable disk. It is just a bit for bit copy of the disk
partition, including the Master Boot Record (MBR). That is the point of using
complete copies of partitions, to do a bare metal restore. Restoring a
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Bryen wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:40 -0500, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like
to do a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a clone of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:40 -0500, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to do
a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a clone of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If
not,
can I copy everything and then
Hello SuSE people,
I plan to buy an external USB drive for my backups. I would really like to do
a commmplete and full backup.
Can I make a clone of my SUSE 10.3 ? I mean bootable and everything. If not,
can I copy everything and then boot it from the DVD? Again, if not, and I
just want a
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