backup
Daryl Styrk
darylstyrk at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 03:01:54 UTC 2009
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:22:22PM -0700, NoOp wrote:
>
> I have to admit that after several years of reading these posts my eyes
> glaze over when someone posts your advise. I suspect John (and other
> Ubuntu users) will as well. This is not intended to offend you, but John
> stated "I know very ltitlle about backups except cpoying files to a
> cd/dvd". While your suggestions may be excellent for an experienced
> linux/unix user, it probably does little to help John out.
>
> So, please provide/point to simple instructions/tutorials if you can.
>
I did. The manual pages. As in the document that tells you how to
use something. I also included some examples of my own. Surely you don't
expect me/us to re-write/cliff-note the manuals. Along with the manual pages,
google, and the examples provided, I suggest you go and try some of them
and come back here with the problems you run into along the way.
Do this. Make two new dirs..
$ mkdir source ; mkdir dest
$ cd source
$ touch file1 file2 file3 file4; ls
$ mkdir included; cd included
$ touch filea fileb filec filed; ls
$ cd; ls
Now you have 2 directories that contain 4 files each. Back them up to the
directory dest/
rsync -avh source/ dest/source/
sending incremental file list
created directory dest/source
./
file1
file2
file3
file4
included/
included/filea
included/fileb
included/filec
included/filed
sent 467 bytes received 171 bytes 1.28K bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
Go look in dest/ It's all there.. Play around with them some more while
looking over the examples you find in the man pages and on the web.
google.com/linux is a great place to start.
> Note: I'm also interested because I'm in process of figuring out how to
> transfer/clone a 20Gb laptop hard drive to a 40Gb networked hard drive,
> and then install a 30Gb hard drive in the laptop & restore from the 20Gb
> backup. This would be similar to John backing up his existing system to
> the new USB drive & restoring it... only difference perhaps would be
> that he is using an attached device while I am using a networked device.
>
Have a look at partimage or clonezilla for that task.
--
Daryl Styrk
Naples FL, USA
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