Re: backup of the whole hd
Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:33:24PM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote:
>> Looks like my Powerbook has some hardware problem so I have to ship it
>> to Apple for repair. Before that, I think it would be prudent to make
>> a backup --- could people please suggest some tools for that?
>
> My disk was broken as well two weeks ago. I have an external disk
> with an ext3 fs on it. So I rsync -vaP'ed my root and home partition
> to two dirs on the disk and back, works like a charm and efficient.
> Got 100% recovery with a broken HDD fortunately. :)
A little curious about the recovery. So you backup the whole system to
an external disk, then when the system fails, use the install-cd to
boot, open a shell, copy back the backups. Reboot. and done. Is it like
this?
For me, the most common failure results in the root partition, each time
i've to reinstall the base system, and then `apt-get ***'
crazily... There should be some better methods.
--
William
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