On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:57 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:33:32PM +0200, Jasper Metselaar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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?
My fave backup method is using Star and rsync, and backing up to another hard drive. It's fast and easy, and hard drives are so cheap you can have all the redundancy you want for not a lot of money. Star is like Gnu tar, but IMO way better, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html If you want to set up and configure your perfect system, then make bootable CDs from it, see http://tldp.net/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/ If you're thinking of creating something like a Norton Ghost image, I don't know if there is a Linux equivalent. > > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly > recommend 72 as a good default. > It reads fine in Kmail. Maybe your reader is funky. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
