Wow, could a redhat bootdisk with net support do the trick? I'm not familiar with emacs at all, so gnoppix won't probably work too well, unless maybe it would, not sure. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman B. Robinson" <norman_b_robinson@xxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: Re: backing up my red hat linux on to cdr? > 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 > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >> > >>Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list