[xubuntu-users] Backup and restore to larger hard disk

[Marc Smith]

You're right. Back In Time seems to be useful and intuitive, but I 
can't seem to find an option to mount specific unmounted drive to put 
the backups on.
Any clues?

Dnia pią, 2 gru 2011, 20:23:11 Drmgiver pisze:
> I tend to use Back In Time.  I like it, and it does what I need it
> to.  Give it a try. :)
>
> Justin
>
> On 12/02/2011 12:54 PM, Marc Smith wrote:
>> It depends on how you understand complexity.
>>
>> dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=32M | gzip>  backup.gz
>>
>> ... doesn't seem to be complexed at all in CLI terms, but GUI ... well,
>> that's a whole different story.
>>
>> I find myself using CLI for backup purposes just because it's simplier
>> and totally universal across almost every platform I can think of [DD
>> runs almost everywhere and its images can be easily mounted in various
>> flavors of *NIX, including *BSD systems.
>>
>> However, I'd agree that Linux lacks some good, simple GUI for backup
>> purposes. I'd say gparted-styled one.
>>
>> Dnia pią, 2 gru 2011, 16:54:19 uteck pisze:
>>> Paragon site says it will do Linux EXT2 and 3 file-systems.  If your
>>> system was formated with EXT4, I think it may still work since 4 is
>>> supposed to be backwards compatible with 3 and 2, but I am not
>>> completely sure about how well third party cloning software will
>>> handle that.
>>> That is one of the issues with the Linux backup software, it tends to
>>> be too complex for most people.  I really like Clonezilla but the
>>> interface is not user friendly.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Alex<alexong2005 at yahoo.com.sg
>>> <mailto:alexong2005 at yahoo.com.sg>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>       <theuteck at ...>  writes:
>>>
>>>      >
>>>      >  On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:50:26 AM alex ong wrote:
>>>      >  >  My hard disk is running out of space for Xubuntu 10.10. Is
>>>      there a software
>>>      >  >  to use so that I could backup and restore to a larger
>>> hard disk?
>>>      >
>>>      >  You could just tar up your /home and then reinstall.  :)
>>>      >
>>>      >  Clonezilla will make a backup of your disk then resize it for a
>>>      larger disk.
>>>      >  It runs as from cd, so you swap in the new disk, then clone the
>>>      old to it.
>>>      >
>>>      >
>>>
>>>
>>>      Tried Clonezilla from Clonezilla website but it proves not so
>>>      simple. Along the
>>>      way I noticed errors and I don't know exactly what is wrong. Can
>>>      Paragon Backup
>>>      be used instead? I find it simplier and easy to use on Windows
>>> system.
>>>
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