Creating and restoring image backups

[Karl F. Larsen]

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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