<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 September 2014 04:15, Scott Blair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott.blair@gmail.com" target="_blank">scott.blair@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Space is not an issue. I have a 4Tb drive for backup and only used 250 Gig of it so far.<br>
My idea of a backup is the less "reinstalling" you have to do the better, Maybe I'm<br>
wrong in thinking this way.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/69363/mount-single-partition-from-image-of-entire-disk-device">http://askubuntu.com/questions/69363/mount-single-partition-from-image-of-entire-disk-device</a><br><br></div><div>Colin<br></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>