> -----Original Message----- > From: D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CRASHING HARD DRIVE > > > Hi All, > I know that this has been discussed before so I > apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard > drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty > bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can > copy it to another, then do the bunzip2? I'm looking > for a easy solution, I can re-install, that's not a > problem, I just hate to loose some programs that I > have installed. > Thanks in advance. > Don
AFAIK, bzip2 is a compressor, not an archiver. You'll need to use tar if you want to do that. If I was really concerned, I'd do this: tar zcf somefileondifferentdisk.tgz /any /olddirectories /icare/about And something like this (not exactly sure of syntax here): dd if=/dev/hdb3 of=someotherfileonanotherdisk This would give me the file level snapshot with the tar command, and a block level image with the dd command. I could then later mount the block image using a loopback file system. It's more complicated but I'm guaranteed not to miss any data from that partition. Tar is less than ideal here since it will cross file systems. You'll need to make sure it doesn't do that or you'll end up with a lot of crap in you tar file, making it tough to use. However, the tar file should take up a great deal less space. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
