backing up

[Colin Law]

On 27 September 2014 04:15, Scott Blair <scott.blair at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Space is not an issue. I have a 4Tb drive for backup and only used 250
> Gig of it so far.
> My idea of a backup is the less "reinstalling" you have to do the better,
> Maybe I'm
> wrong in thinking this way.
>

I that case you could use dd to backup the complete disc image.  Then in
the event of disaster you just have to restore that image to a different
disc.  It is trickier to selectively recover stuff, but I think there is a
way of mounting a dd image.  [1] looks likely.

[1]
http://askubuntu.com/questions/69363/mount-single-partition-from-image-of-entire-disk-device

Colin
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