[ltp] backing up a laptop

[Tod Harter]

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
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