My /dev/hda hard drive is on the way out, and I just wanted to run my backup plan past you all, to minimise any pain if/when it's replaced...
My setup is as follows: Running Debian woody with a few backported newer packages. 40G /dev/hda split between an ext3 root partition (about 20Gb), a swap partition, and a Windows 2000 partition (about 20Gb) 40G /dev/hdb, the whole of which is dedicated to an LVM volume group. The only stuff on there I really want to keep is the approx 6Gb of digital photos I've amassed. So, my plan is to: 1. Copy the entire contents of the ext3 root partition minus /proc to an LVM logical volume on /dev/hdb (using cp -a or tar) 2. Copy any windows documents to CD-R and/or /dev/hdb (don't really have the spare space or inclination to do a complete Windows backup). 3. Swap the hard drives 4. Partition the new hard drive with a similar layout to before, and reinstall Windows 2000 (since it affects the MBR). 5. Use Knoppix/LNX-BBC/Eduard Bloch's boot disk to copy the files from the LVM logical volume to the ext3 partition on /dev/hda(got all three, not sure if Knoppix supports LVM though) 6. Use the Debian rescue disk with rescue root =/dev/hda? and then run lilo to write the MBR. Does this sound feasible? I've never tried boot disks with LVM support, so the only tweak I could see is to backup the photos somewhere else, and backup everything to a big ext3 partition on /dev/hdb. Only trouble is I don't really want to have critical stuff only on /dev/hda, and backing up to 10+ CD-Rs would be a bit time consuming. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
