On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:29 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > anyway, I had JUST LAST WEEK created a clonezilla backup on another > partition ! it took me about 3 tries to figure out which menus and how > to do the restore ( I almost said YES to wiping out my entire 2nd > drive), but I finally got it, did it, rebooted, and 30 minutes after > it crashed, I am BACK!! yay!!!
Clonezilla, rsync etc. do work, but why spending that much brain power for learning and/or trial and error? HDDs are inexpensive nowadays, so I prefer to do a simple tar.gz from another Linux install, without any kind of smart sync. I simply backup everything and simply restore everything. I still use the MBR style and to backup the MBR I use dd. The only good advice IMO is to mount the backup device as read only, when planning to clean the broken install and to restore it from a backup. I once behaved as idiotic as possible and "cleaned" the broken install + the backup :D. The only better thing than tar I know is the FreeBSD's dump command. I wonder if there is a similar tool for Linux too, since dump makes a snapshot before doing the backup, so you can backup a complete FreeBSD install while using it at the same time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1389388505.13250.57.camel@archlinux
