[EMAIL PROTECTED], On Wednesday March 13, 2002 11:39, you said something about: > Mondo looks interesting but the cd drive is on my boss's windows laptop > not on the linux machines and reading the manual it looks like the > linux machine must have a cdrw drive
Yes, I understood that. But at $75 to $100 for an excellent backup solution, I thought it was worth mentioning. But I understand how some bosses can be. However you also didn't read the whole mondo page. ;) <excerpt from the manpage> -i Use ISO files (CD images) as backup media. This is good for backing up your system to a spare hard drive. The -n switch is a wiser choice if you plan to restore from a remote filesystem. </excerpt> > > 1. Use Mondo. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ > > This is by far the best and most flexible backup I've used. It is also > > good for disaster recovery. > > > > 2. If that won't suit your needs, perhaps try tar. Then once everything > > you want is tarred up, then do a mkisofs on the tar file(s). All of it > > can be scripted. > > Reading about tar it looked like you have to enter every sub directory > individually Actually wildcards will get you everything (see command below). Then to exclude items make a file (also see below) as it will usually be more consistent as to what you don't want to back up (/proc /dev and so on). Try this command as root from whatever directory you like. Careful though, if you use it from / you will backup the entire drive "." files and all. The preserve will make sure ownership, order and permissions are preserved in the archive. # tar -czvf backup.tar.gz --preserve .* * Look into --exclude-from to exclude files and dirs and keep them in a file. > > 3. I thought (it's been a while) that pax could do . files. But you have > > to use patterns. YMMV. > > I've been messing with patterns so far my attempts have led to pax trying > to do everything when I try for . files. I'll keep searching and > expermenting as this looks the most hopeful I wound up not liking pax (though I honestly can't remember why) so I've stuck with tar and just used it in creative ways. Good Luck. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
