On Friday 01 August 2008 10:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-07-31 21:55, Michael S. Peek wrote: > > Hello gurus, > > > > I'm considering doing some dangerous tinkering with my laptop. I have > > regular backups of /root /boot /etc and /home, but would like to make a > > complete image of the drive as well. Ideally, what I want to do is boot > > from a cd, dd the drive to a file on my workstation via ssh in such a > > way that I can dd it back later if anything goes wrong. > > IIUC, you 'just' need a backup of your system. I'd recommend to rsync > your data to your backup like > > rsync -ax / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/dir/
Does the -x option mean that it will not read mounts like /dev, /proc and such? > > Do this for all partitions of your hard disk. > > (rsync runs over ssh) > > In case you have to restore in worst case you'd have to > 1) reformat and repartition your hard disk (keep a reference of your > partition info!) > 2) rsync the other way round > > This is faster than dd, because only the actual data are transfered, > while dd transfers all the empty space as well. It also saves (a lot of) > disk space on your backup system. > > In most cases it is *much* faster than dd, since it's rather unlikely > that you'll break your whole disk, ie. wipe all the data on disk. In > this case, the restore process will only have to replace those files > that are actually changed, ie. broken -- typically only a tiny fraction > of your disk. > > YMMV, take care, > > Johannes -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
