RE: Best way to backup a specific drive?

On 01/10/2007, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am preparing to backup my root drive in preparation
for installing f7. What is the best way to do this?

I have in /dev/hda as:

/boot = /dev/hda1
/ = /dev/hda2

I have backed up /boot with: tar zcvpf /boot.tgz /boot

I'm not sure why you care about backing up /boot - certainly it would
be unwise to restore this when you have installed F7!


But have get to figure out how to get /dev/hda2 backed up without
picking up the other drives mounted on /


rsync is your friend. man rsync. rsync -avr SOURCEDIR DESTDIR - this
is assuming you have your backup disk mounted.

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So... using rsync, would this work?

cd /backup (/dev/hdb1)
rsync -avr /dev/hda2 .

Thanks!
Dan


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