Perhaps this will help: http://freshmeat.net/projects/partimage/?topic_id=142%2C253
1. Save your partitions to an image file (with compression!) 2. split your image to CDROM size files (649MB or so) 3. copy files to CDROM 4. Make a boot cd or keep a copy of Knoppix around for restoring the image!
Hope this helps,
N.
Brent Harding wrote:
Any way to just back up everything as you have it? Make multiple CD's? So you have sort of like a linux restore disk with everything working good.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael Skodlar" <raffi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: backing up my red hat linux on to cdr?
You might find a starting point with the following scripts:
http://www.linwin.com/sysadmin/bin/clone.scsi and http://www.linwin.com/sysadmin/bin/cp_disk
One is for scsi and the second for ATA drives. Make sure you edit the files before you execute them or you might destroy your data.
If you are going to keep the old drive around make backup of critical files only. There is no need to backup binaries you installed from the CD or Internet. You only need to backup config info from /etc.
I backup only a portion of my home directory with the following script:
http://www.linwin.com/sysadmin/bin/my.backup
Check the script to see which directories and files get backed up and where. The script gives you an idea how to create CD image to backup your files if the total is less than the size of CD. Adapt to your needs. No need to backup deb, rpms, etc. that can be downloaded from the internet. I do create 2 files with the tree information about all files I have in my home dir. That way it's easy to go back on the internet and download them again.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:27:10PM -0700, hank wrote:
hello I am a linux new be I am running red hat 9
I got everything the way I like it but am going to be putting linux on a new drive and I also want to image my linux drive so I can restore it on my drive and so I can also have a back up how can I do this? thanks hank
-- Rafael
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