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Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system



on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:33:32PM +0200, Jasper Metselaar (jasper@formmailer.nl) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Debian testing system and would like to make a backup (image) of
> it, so I can easily restore the system when I've messed things up.I
> searched through the list archives, but the messages I found are
> rather old.What's currently the best way to make an image of a debian
> system?

Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters.  I strongly
recommend 72 as a good default.


You don't want to "image" your system, you want to back it up.

There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system backups you may find useful, at:

    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html

Thank you.


Peace.

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