Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. Although I do value the inputs about treating OS and data backups separately, I'm inclined to go the bootable CD/usb for my OS and data. That way, I can just save the ISO in another external drive and pick the date that I want to revive.
Time for me to read up on Clonezill and Mondorescue. I hope they can create a single ISO that already has my files and OS in one go. :) On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com>wrote: > As much as possible, treat your OS backups separately from your data > backups. That's because your data tends to change much faster than > your OS, and losing / restoring one doesn't really affect the other > that much. That being said: > > mondorescue/clonezilla -> make a bootable CD for your OS > rdiff-backup -> secondary storage for your data > > One advantage of treating your data backups separately is that it's > easier to pick practically transparent systems like rdiff-backup or > rsnapshot or just plain rsync, so that copying files is almost as easy > as browsing to the backup location. Rescue CDs tend to leave you with > opaque images that take a bit of work to browse through. And you'll > also have to make less of them. > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Andres Montiel, CUA <kyut...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Would anyone have a recommendation as to how I can back up my Ubuntu > 10.10 system? It has around 200GB of files (it serves as the backup of all > the computers at home so it houses a ton of photos and videos). I tried > remastersys, but I got a message saying that the file created was larger > than iso9660 (I hope I remembered it correctly) would allow. > > I just need a simple way to back it up and put it back on the same > computer just in case the hard drive fails. > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > -- > This email is: [ ] actionable [ ] fyi [ ] social > Response needed: [ ] yes [ ] up to you [ ] no > Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [ ] none > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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