rsnapshot seems the mostly likely candidate. any suggestins of usefull instructions or howto's on how to get rsnapshot working ?
man rsnapshot doesnt make much sense to me really, after a few reads. thanks philip aka brobostigon On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Dave Walker wrote: > ptaylor wrote: >> hi >> >> any ideas, >> i want to backup my laptop to my desktop, ie, a direct hdd and partiton >> backup over the wifi and ethernet, >> >> i just tried partimage with partimage-server on my desktop, and couldnt >> get it working, >> >> any suggestions, preferably ncurses or gui please. >> >> <SNIP> > Hi Philip, > > Any reason you want a byte-by-byte backup, isn't backing up the > filesystem enough? > > In my opinion using an incremental filesystem backup tool such as > rsnapshot (console based), or sbackup (GUI) leaves greater flexibility. > > However, if you really want a byte level backup, _I_ would use a livecd > (as i would prefer not to have the filesystem mounted) and 'dd' and > something like: > > $ sudo umount /dev/sda1 # check it's unmounted > > $ sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > ~/sda1.img" # copy it > over ssh to your other PC (as i expect you don't have enough RAM to store the > whole partition :) > > > HTH > > Kind Regards, > Dave Walker > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
