Creating and restoring image backups
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 12:02:54 UTC 2009
J Bickhard wrote:
> I have a computer running Windows XP home edition, and have been
> trying (rather unsucessfully) to create a full-image backup of the
> 80GB harddrive onto my USB seagate 350(?) GB external hard drive. My
> question is this: is there a way, with the Ubuntu boot disk, to make
> this backup without installing Ubuntu on the computer in question.
>
> Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine
>
The best backup software is rsync. I hve been using it for some time
and it is tricky to get get set up right, but then it just works. Here
is what works on Ubuntu Hardy to a USB hard drive:
rsync -vaH --exclude '/proc' --exclude 'sys' --exclude '/mnt' --exclude
'/media' /. /media/disk
Reading man rsync will help you as well. Not sure you can use rsync from
the LiveCD. Never tried it myself.
73 Karl
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