<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:02 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmspro@yahoo.com">gmspro@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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promac wrote:<br>
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You can do this way, but ideally your file system should be unmounted (boot<br>
from<br>
a live CD/DVD).<br>
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I, personally, use BackupPC for /home and partimage for the file system (/<br>
and /boot).<br>
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--<br>
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti<br>
LCG - UFRJ<br>
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Would someone please tell how to use partimage to backup whole fedora 10 system in detail?<br>
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rpm -qa | grep partimage<br>
partimage-0.6.7-5.fc10.i386</blockquote><div><br>Please, read:<br><br>/usr/share/doc/partimage-0.6.7/README.partimage.html<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I also downloaded systemrescuecd and burned it.<br>
But can't use it to backup whole fedora 10 system(actually I don't know how to use it)<br>
Booting this cd can't find graphical option.</blockquote><div> </div>Try "xinit"<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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fdisk -l<br>
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Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0x29032902<br>
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sda1 * 1 1912 15358108+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)<br>
/dev/sda2 1913 9449 60540952+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<br>
/dev/sda3 9450 9729 2249100 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br>
/dev/sda5 1913 5609 29696121 b W95 FAT32<br>
/dev/sda6 5610 8286 21502971 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda7 8287 9449 9341766 83 Linux<br>
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I am trying to backup /dev/sda6 partition.<br>
Is it necessary to backup the /proc , /sys, /lost+found , /media, /mnt, directory to be backed up?</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Is it possible to backup /dev/sda6 partition excluding these directory(/proc , /sys, /lost+found , /media, /mnt,) with partimage or systemrescuecd?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Partimage will make a copy of the whole partition. You cannot exclude anything.<br>
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If I copy the whole /dev/sda6 partition in a portable hard disk(250GB),then<br>
after reinstalling minimum fedora 10 and copy-paste that /dev/sda6 from the portable hard disk to the newly installed fedora 10's root (/) directory ,will it work ?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>In fact, you do not need to reinstall. You can use / and /boot (if it is in its own partition) from your backup. Generally, you just need to adapt grub.conf,<br>fstab in some cases and/or run mkinitrd to recreate the initial initrd img.<br>
</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Paulo Roma Cavalcanti<br>LCG - UFRJ<br>