[ltp] Complete Backup (and restore)

[Adam Southerland]

Mondo Rescue... Can this be put on a boot disk of some sort?

And this would still require me to have Samba installed correct? It sounds 
like this would be an image instead of putting all my files in a tar file... 
hmm... I will look into this, installing of Samba and Linux Boot disks as 
well...

and I will be backing up ALL config files to an FTP Server before running 
anything - last thing I want is for me to screw up and loose my 
configurations... (Took me a full month to get XWindows to work right and 
that was after a month of installing Linux =)

Thanks you!
Adam Southerland


----Original Message Follows----
I _think_ you could use MONDO RESCUE <http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/> to 
create disc restoration images that could be saved to a mounted filesystem.

I've used it to restore RedHat linux systems from bootable CDs and it worked 
great, but haven't tried saving the images to a mounted filesystem.

...brig

At 04:58 PM 5/19/2003 -0300, Adam Southerland wrote:
 >I am trying to backup my Laptop (760XL)
 >
 >I have a PCMCIA NIC and in Linux it works awesome!
 >
 >I wish to back it up entirely - All Partitions, tables and everything... I
 >have 1 big delmina that should explain what I type next... I have a 1.2Gb 
HD
 >that is full and the only other access to a place to put this 'image' is 
on
 >my network - a Windows Network...
 >
 >My first idea is to use Norton Ghost with DOS networking (Multicast is 
cool)
 >but I cannot get my NIC to work in DOS (or Windows even)
 >
 >How can I use Linux to Backup and Restore my entire HD? What is the best
 >way? What software will be needed (Ex. Samba)? What commands do I need to
 >learn and the most important question... How do I put it back on after I
 >back it up? (LOL I don't even
 >
 >I am by no means a Linux Guru... I'd like to be, but I am not there yet. 
If
 >I can accomplish this then I can continue learning Linux at an advanced
 >pase... (Not that I can spell =) hehe
 >
 >If someone can at least point me in the right direction that is all I 
need!
 >Note: I will probably have other questions like - once my machine is 
'empty'
 >and I go to restore my backup, will I be able to do it via boot disks? Or
 >will I have to install a small linux version to get my NIC and possibly 
any
 >other apps loaded? - I'd like to be able to use a boot disk to do both
 >backup and restore... (That is the ideal situation in an ideal world... to
 >bad this world isn't ideal =(
 >
 >Adam Southerland
 >-- Another Linux Laptop Fan
 >-- IBM Thinkpad 760XL
 >
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