[ltp] backing up a laptop

[Tod Harter]

Mondo utterly kicks ass... 

Even the most completely amateur sysadmin/user SHOULD be able to figure out 
how to use it. The disks this thing makes are GOOD too, you can clone your 
system, repartition and restore, selectively restore files, and even back up 
and restore raw partitions (so you can back up stupid things like BeOS 
partitions or whatever, certainly windoz partitions of all types are no 
problem).

Its not a good tool for incremental backups, but as a way to make a baseline 
bare-metal recovery type disk set nothing beats it.

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:26 pm, Tod Harter wrote:
> You might try playing around with 'mondo', which is a tool for building
> backup iso-9660 images, and restoring them. It can build a bootable image
> that will let you get yourself back up to where you were, you can also give
> boot options that let you manually repartition before restore, etc. Its
> proven pretty handy in a lot of shops for bare metal recovery.
>
> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:14 am, Alexander Gran wrote:
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> > Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 03:04 schrieb Kacper Wysocki:
> > > firstly, the partition information might get screwy. I'd just copy the
> > > partition, not the whole drive, but I'd have to do some funky stuff
> > > resizing the partition to use the rest of the (potentially larger)
> > > drive.
> >
> > That shouldn't be a problem. Resizing is simple as long as you haven't
> > mounted the partition. If you additinionally need to move it, it get's
> > tricky..
> >
> > > secondly, fiding a linux-floppy that supports pcmcia and nfs might be
> > > challenging.
> >
> > Why not use a CD(e.g. Knoppix).
> > Building your own isn't hard, either.
> >
> > > Maybe tar would be a better idea instead of dd, but do any of you have
> > > better ideas? I'd appreciate suggestions for how to do this backup-
> > > restore.
> >
> > If you plan to do it regulary, I'd suggest rsync.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > - --
> > Some operating systems are called `user friendly',
> > 	Linux however is `expert friendly'.
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