Re: Backup question
hi ya tom
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Tom wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:52:41PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
..
> > - if you're running vfat on the xp box ... ( good and bad idea )
> > - create c:\DataFromDebian
> > - copy all your /home/victor stuff to c:\DataFromDebian
> > ( pick your poison for which way to do that
> >
> > ( or whatever various ways w/ the right syntax )
> > - debian# mount \\winXP:\DataFromDebian /mnt/XP
> > - debian# cp -par /home/victor /mnt/XP
>
> Both of these points are true only if the XP and Deb are multiboot on
> the same machine. (What I do in that case is run NTFS on my system
> partition, and keep a spare decent-sized vfat partition for sharing
> files between Debian and Windows.) You also overlooked that if you are
> running e2fs on Debian there are shareware utilities in Windows to read
> that and copy it; I use Reiserfs.
same disk or different disk or different systems makes no difference
- any debian/windoze can mount the other xp box
- any debian box will have problems writing to ntfs on the xp box
having a separate vfat partition would be good ... if one had that
forethought before installing winxp on the whole disk or part of it w/o
a way for linux to write to the xp for sharing data
> But the way I interpret the OP is that the two machines are on differnet
> boxes, in which case you should install Samba on the debian box, or use
> ssh to copy stuff.
yup.. like the other dude said, ( forget your name ), use winscp
to have xp copy debian:/home/victor.tgz down onto its ntfs to get
around the *linux can't safely write into ntfs problem
- anything that is manual backups is for the birdz .. too much work :-0
- backups should be 100% automated and good for 3-6 months
at a time ..
- one day you gonna forget or make a "backup mistake and oops"
tar zxvf vs tar zcvf would be the common problem,
done that once in my whole life thingie like rm -rf /
c ya
alvin
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