[ltp] backing up a laptop

[Tony Willoughby]

dd seems like overkill to me.

I use bu on a regular basis.  It does backups to an NFS mounted system
(and old 386 in my basment).  Let's me sleep a little easier knowing my
data's in two places.  :^)

http://www.hightek.org/bu/




On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 23:24, Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:
> Hi,
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> > firstly, the partition information might get screwy. I'd just copy the =
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> > partition, not the whole drive, but I'd have to do some funky stuff =20
> > resizing the partition to use the rest of the (potentially larger) =20
> > drive.
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> I once did the same kind of thing by making a big tarball (but i just
> stored it on another partition to reformat the original one).
> Works great and you can partition your new drive as you like.
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> > secondly, fiding a linux-floppy that supports pcmcia and nfs might be =20
> > challenging.
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> How about CD? I think every major distro has some kind of self booting
> rescue cd.
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> Andr=E9.
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Tony Willoughby  tonyw@pobox.com
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