Speaking of tar, Can I use it to BU my win98 partition.

[Jeff Vian]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

>It would appear that on May 12, Jeff Vian did say:
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>>Have you tried mondoarchive?
>>    http://www.mondorescue.org
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>>I use it and have it set to run from a cron job at night once a week.  A 
>>full backup monthly, differential backups weekly (this is my home system).
>>It creates bootable iso images for the backup on hard drive and then I 
>>use cdrecord to put them onto cd for storage. (It can backup directly to 
>>the cdrom if you wish, or to tape or an nfs mounted drive.)
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>>A full backup of a system with about 38gb of data takes 18 700mb CDs 
>>(about 2.1gb of data on each 700mb cd)  It also can be used to do a 
>>backup of other filesystems that are mounted such as your Win98.
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>>This would be much better than a tar archive because of the ability to 
>>boot and do a full bare bones recovery. Also with the major compression 
>>it takes less space, And with less manual work than the tar - split - 
>>cdrecord routine.
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>>just my $0.02  :-)
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>>Jeff
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>Well thanks for the suggestion Jeff. But what do you have against manual
>labor anyway? One of the things I like about the tar approach is it keeps
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time is at a premium when you are busy.

>me hands on enough to: A) learn from it. B) keep what knowledge I already
>learned refreshed C) make me intimately aware of what exactly is on which
>cd so I can label them properly. 
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True

>I'm not really much of a fan of automated processes creating gigabytes
>of data files on a cron job. I mean if cron could automatically label and
>change the CDs then backing up directly to the cd would make it
>attractive enough for me to spend the time to learn it.
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I don't know of any production environment where the backups are done 
manually

>However the tar split method coupled with a bootable gentoo linux
>partimage cd which has tar on it along with an assortment of lilo
>floppies should make short work of any bare bones recovery I might need
>to do (partimage is my redundant backup method) 
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>Still this mondoarchive sounds like a good system. And when/if ever I'm
>ready for an automated back up system, I hope I remember your
>suggestion. Thanks again.
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