Backing up whole system
Steven Stern
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Sat May 9 19:42:17 UTC 2009
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On 05/09/2009 01:04 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> On 9 May 2009 at 6:15, GMS S wrote:
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>> What is the best and easy way to backup whole fedora 10?
>>
>
> What kind of backup are you trying to do?
> I am the current maintainer of G4L, which is a live cd, and currently buiding
> using my Fedora 10 systems and use to backup my computer labs. It is
> basically a bare-bones backup usng dd and various compression options to
> backup disks or partition. A disk backup copies everything, so it can restore a
> system to a previous stare quickly. My lab has 80GB disks with
> 98/XP/Fedora 10 and it does a full backup in about 50 minutes using lzop
> compression and 40 minutes to restore. lzop is about twice as fast as gzip
> with my systems and only 10% larger image.
>
> It can be run from a boot cd, but I added it as grub option to elimanate the
> need to insert the cd each time.
>
> title G4l
> kernel /bz29.1 ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0
> initrd /ramdisk.gz
>
> These just requires copying one of the kernels from the iso or dev kit, and
> placing it and the ramdisk.gz file in the boot directory.
>
> The latest alpha version is
> ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.30alpha57.iso
> ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.30a57.devel.tar.gz
>
> But the released 0.29 is on sourceforge, but doesn't have the latest kernels.
>
> One final note. This backups up to an ftp server, or to external usb devices.
> It is also totally free, and the dev kit has full source code.
>
>
>> Thanks.
>> Fedora 10.
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Thanks. I backup via rsync, but I'm going to use this before I upgrade
to F11 so I can get back to the status quo ante should things go wrong.
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Steve
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