Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility

2003-08-14 Thread ZekeVarg
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 05:58, Keith Goettert wrote: > The boot drive of one of my systems is going. I would like to make a > copy to CD or a Disk to Disk copy. It has many partitions and I would > like to preserve them seperately or at least be able to recreate them > painlessly. For regular back

Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility

2003-08-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Keith Goettert wrote: > The boot drive of one of my systems is going. I would like to make a > copy to CD or a Disk to Disk copy. It has many partitions and I would > like to preserve them seperately or at least be able to recreate them > painlessly. too late

Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility

2003-08-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, R Ransbottom wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:47:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > if the disk is dying ... doing a full disk backup will probably > > kill it completely just as easily as it could keep going a few more > > reads/write > > > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/

Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Goettert
Title: Message The boot drive of one of my systems is going.  I would like to make a copy to CD or a Disk to Disk copy.  It has many partitions and I would like to preserve them seperately or at least be able to recreate them painlessly.

Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility

2003-08-12 Thread R Ransbottom
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:47:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > if the disk is dying ... doing a full disk backup will probably > kill it completely just as easily as it could keep going a few more > reads/write > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 > tar cvf - /dev/hda1 | ( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp - ) > syn