On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:56:12PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
> I think a whole system backup is asking for trouble if there are
> glitches in the SW which lead to catastrophe. Probably not very
> likely, but...
Although a distinct po
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 09:31:07AM -0500, David wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
> > > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
> > > something that I can boot up and th
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
> > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
> > something that I can boot up and then remove the CD.
>
> My backup strategy is similar to yours.
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
...
> Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
> something that I can boot up and then remove the CD. To be able to do
> this, I believe one would need a boot image that would build a ramdisk
> and then put needed
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
> Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
> something that I can boot up and then remove the CD.
My backup strategy is similar to yours. I regularly create tars of
my file systems and put them on CD-RW. I dont ha
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:34:48PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> > However, even before I got the CD's constructed, it occurred to me that
> > Knoppix has the CD mounted, and I have only one CD. This wouldn't work
> > as I originally intended. And sure enough, this is the case -- my
> > single CD i
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:38:49PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote:
> David wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to set up a backup system using CD's.
>
> > The idea was to, in the event of a total drive loss, to boot up a
> > Knoppix CD, manually fdisk ( or whatever), the partitions, and untar the
> > respective part
David wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a backup system using CD's.
> The idea was to, in the event of a total drive loss, to boot up a
> Knoppix CD, manually fdisk ( or whatever), the partitions, and untar the
> respective partitions back onto the HD.
> However, even before I got the CD's construct
I'm trying to set up a backup system using CD's. I was able to get the
system onto two CD's. I have partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /var, and
/home. I have a tar.gz for each partition, and saved each relative to .
- that is, for example, /boot is save in the fashion:
cd /boot; tar -czf blah . as
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