On 2009-03-23_16:51:19, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks :-) > > I need change my root hard disk and I'd like save all system users (many > because each has a mailbox). > > Is there a tool (or which program) can I use for do this? > > thanks :-) > > Pol
I'm guessing that you want something you can do -now-, as opposed to a thoroughly designed backup system. For -now-: Buy an external USB hard drive, the kind that has moving parts inside. You can get a terabyte for under $200 at Costco. If your root disk is bigger that that spend more money, you have enough money to buy a bigger USB hard drive. Get one that's big enough to hold it all. Use rsync. Run as root user. Mount the USB drive at /media/USB Look at /etc/mtab to discover what device name was assigned to the USB Unmount the USB but don't disconnect it. Write an ext3 file system onto the USB so that you don't have to deal with the naming and file size limitations of vfat. Remount the USB Create a top level target directory on the USB #> mkdir /media/USB/target Do something like #> rsync -a /home/ /media/USB/target Notice that 'home' has slashes both left and right. This is important to rsync. Follow with rsync of other directories in /. E.g. /etc, /boot, /root, etc. Do NOT do #> rsync -a /media/ /media/USB/target ;-( Think about the order in which you do the directories so that you get the most important stuff first, in case the root drive fails while you are working. Don't worry about getting backup of the software that you got from Debian. Newer, better versions are available from debian.org once you have a new HD installed. If you have time, you might do #> dpkg --get-selections >/media/USB/target/myselections HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
