From: "Daniel Toffetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, in fact, I need two different classes of backup: one is for a few > documents, scripts and programs, which tar.gz'd amounts to less than ... > The other one is a backup of the system, including /etc, /home and a > few other things like dpkg selections. Right now I only copy this to > another partition, but I'm making room in the other disk to hold > another copy.
Backups in general: rsync --verbose --archive --delete SRC DST e.g. rsync ... ~ /backups Filesystem-level backups: /etc/fstab: /dev/hda4 /backups .... mount /backups rsync --one-file-system --archive -H --delete / /backups umount /backups Or dd, or tar, or cpio. I don't think you could actually boot off the backup partition in an emergency, because the lilo map and fstab would be wrong for it. But this is not a brick wall. ~mark
