Re: Best way to backup a specific drive?



Daniel B. Thurman 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

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

Of course, I am saving the backups on a different drive so that I can
use specific files I want to restore or refer to when rebuilding the new
f7 installation.

Thanks!
Dan


If you want a quick way to restore your current setup, take a look
at partimage. http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page It is part of the
System Rescue CD. http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page This give you
the advantage of backing up an unmounted file system.

If you want to use tar, take a look at the --one-file-system option.

Mikkel
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