A site I like to use, of course I'm a BASH shell user, is http://www.ss64.com/bash/ It gives you a very "in brief" look at commands but can be a great resource. Chris On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Adam Myrow wrote: > Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:43:47 -0500 > From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Subject: Backups (was RE: commands) > > Well, it's not exactly Ghost, but my favorite utility is EXT2 dump from > http://dump.sourceforge.net. It is a port of the BSD dump utility, which > also showed up in Solaris under the name UFSdump, since that's the > filesystem that Solaris uses. It has a strange syntax, but is easy to write > scripts for. What really comes in handy is to build a statically-linked > version, then put the "restore" utility on a floppy disk or CD. Then, you > can boot a rescue disk, mount the floppy or CD with restore, and regardless > of what libraries are on the rescue disk, you can restore your backups. > I've actually done a successful restore of an entire Linux system this way. > I just booted the rescue CD and after restoring the backups to > newly-formatted partitions, did a "chroot" command, then ran lilo. From > there, it was as if nothing had happened. I doubt it would be that easy in > Windows. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Butch Bussen > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:04 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: commands > > Speaking of drives and such and windows not recognizing them. What do you > folks use to back up your systems. I have a box I run Linux on for i r l p > ham radio stuff and I'm looking for a way to ghost or immage the drive. > I'm told later versions of ghost will do this, but of course wonderful ghost > in its g u i even in dos doesn't talk. > > Any suggestions? > 73s > Butch Bussen > wa0vjr > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Chris Gray, Sr. Technical Writer Symantec Corporation 415-738-2649 voice 415-348-9636 fax San Francisco, CA 94107
