<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> NoOp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:h2ubgu$lc3$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 07/06/2009 06:14 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:11:00PM -0700, John Heinen wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">A large retailer is offerering a seagate 250 mb backup hard drive at a fair price, including various programs for backups etc, for windows only. I know very ltitlle about backups except cpoying files to a cd/dvd. How would I backup ubuntu and other linuxs to such a drive? John </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">rsync rdiff-backup tar dd Are all great starts. See the man pages for each, and google around for examples of each. I personally use rsync and rdiff-backup daily. something like rsync -avh --progress --delete /home/daryl/Mail /media/disk/Backups/Mail or rdiff-backup --exclude ~/Downloads --exclude ~./firefox --include ~/Mail myhome.server.backup::/home/me/Backups/diffs Lots of examples out there.. Play around with some fake files/dir (use touch) to see how everything works. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. 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. </pre> </blockquote> How about Ghost4Linux <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/</a> or FOG <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOGUserGuide">http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOGUserGuide</a> I haven't tried them myself (yet) so I don't know how much mileage you'll get out of either of them. Darren </body> </html>