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From: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
To: smertens@mho.com
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Backup
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:18:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42549876.7040709@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d31t0b$a1v$1@sea.gmane.org>

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smertz wrote:
> I have spent a great deal of time on simple things in Linux as I am new
> over the last week (No better way to learn)  But I don't want to
> re-learn in case the proverbial Hard Drive dies, so what is a good way
> to back up my system? On my 2 Windows XP machines I use Ghost 9.  Is
> there similar thing to copy a Linux drive?
> 
> Or can I simply do something like an XCOPY from one drive to a second
> one as a backup?
> 
> I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)
> on a home Workgroup as a File and print server - If I ever get Samba set
> up correctly. Any suggestions appriciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 

$ man rsync

I use rsync over NFS to back up my file server to another machine - there are a
lot of options available.

On the same machine, you can use dd to copy partitions, but it is tremendously
slow.  It is the only way to get a full disk image, though - it's the best thing
I've found for backing up Windows and BIOS boot floppies.

Jim

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-06 23:59 Linux Backup smertz
2005-04-07  2:18 ` Jim Nelson [this message]
2005-04-07  3:39 ` Eric Bambach
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2005-04-07 12:46 Mike Turcotte

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