Full Backup to new partition

[Karl Larsen]

    I have been using rsync to put my backup on a USB portable HD. There 
it sits and some day I might need it. Today I said "how do you USE this 
backup?".

    First turned off this computer and booted with my 7.18 LiveCD. There 
I used fdisk to find the place to put the backup. Then used mkfs.ext3 to 
give it a file system. Then mounted that to the /mnt on the LiveCD.

    Using rsync I moved all the data from the portable HD to the new 
partition. This was a no brainer and it worked just fine. The new 
partition is /dev/hda7 and I did some fixing of /etc/fstab and 
/boot/grub/menu.lst and now if right I should be able to boot the new 
backup in /dev/hda7, but that will be done tomorrow because it is time 
to relax today. Have a drink while finding out why the stock went down.

Karl

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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