Re: Backup question

From: Alvin Oga (aoga_at_ns.Linux-Consulting.com)
Date: 11/20/03

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    Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:15:40 -0800 (PST)
To: Tom <tb.31112.nospam@comcast.net>

    hi ya tom

    On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Tom wrote:

    > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:52:41PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
    ..

    > > - if you're running vfat on the xp box ... ( good and bad idea )
    > > - create c:\DataFromDebian
    > > - copy all your /home/victor stuff to c:\DataFromDebian
    > > ( pick your poison for which way to do that
    > >
    > > ( or whatever various ways w/ the right syntax )
    > > - debian# mount \\winXP:\DataFromDebian /mnt/XP
    > > - debian# cp -par /home/victor /mnt/XP
    >
    > Both of these points are true only if the XP and Deb are multiboot on
    > the same machine. (What I do in that case is run NTFS on my system
    > partition, and keep a spare decent-sized vfat partition for sharing
    > files between Debian and Windows.) You also overlooked that if you are
    > running e2fs on Debian there are shareware utilities in Windows to read
    > that and copy it; I use Reiserfs.
     
    same disk or different disk or different systems makes no difference
            - any debian/windoze can mount the other xp box
            - any debian box will have problems writing to ntfs on the xp box

    having a separate vfat partition would be good ... if one had that
    forethought before installing winxp on the whole disk or part of it w/o
    a way for linux to write to the xp for sharing data

    > But the way I interpret the OP is that the two machines are on differnet
    > boxes, in which case you should install Samba on the debian box, or use
    > ssh to copy stuff.

    yup.. like the other dude said, ( forget your name ), use winscp
    to have xp copy debian:/home/victor.tgz down onto its ntfs to get
    around the *linux can't safely write into ntfs problem

    - anything that is manual backups is for the birdz .. too much work :-0
            - backups should be 100% automated and good for 3-6 months
            at a time ..

            - one day you gonna forget or make a "backup mistake and oops"
                    tar zxvf vs tar zcvf would be the common problem,
                    done that once in my whole life thingie like rm -rf /

    c ya
    alvin 

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