Re: Ext3 --> NTFS Backup & Restore with Partimage 0.6.6

zmdmw52 wrote:

when I make a backup of my system, I only take a backup of the config
files and my custom files, the rest can in worst case be got back with a
simple install that shouldn't take more than 20-30 minutes including
updates to latest version of files, then installing my custom files and
the config files and I have my system back, but I also have a rescue
system that I can use in case the daily in use install would get some
troubles.

As a normal user, system & config files would be 'locked' and unable
to be copied.

You hardly make anything else than personal backups as a normal user, system backups are done with a privileged user.

How do you backup/copy your system & config files? Which are the
important folders to be backed up?


I tar files which is then compressed. The tar file allows you to pick out a specific file, you don't have to apply the whole backup, to get one file back.

/etc usually holds most of the system configuration files, but then you will need to check up what some other important files like your web servers document root, or your database files (if you don't do an automatic dumping it to a "backup file") and so on.

For the normal user it's ~/ that is important.


(esp I want to include the updates to kernel, gnome, drivers &
applications)

Why would you do that? it will just take up a lot of space, you can always apply the latest kernel RPM/DEB to get those.


1) Does anyone have experience whether the image can be successfully
restored from the NTFS partition --> ext3 Linux partition?
And also if partimage will auto-unzip the backed-up image file? (It
was gzipped, with medium compression level during backup).

In theory it should work, as the files aren't directly stored on the
NTFS file system but in the image file which is then compressed.
dd with gzip/bzip2 should work fine. (could be what they are using)

I did not get this (what is "dd"?)?

Type "man dd" in a termina window and you get up the information.
It's used to make image files of file systems.


So, when I restore from the backed-up image
using 'partimage', it will 'unzip'/'decompress' the image file by
itself?

If it comes with an restore feature it should.


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//Aho
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