Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> What is a good way to backup the entire linux system?
>
> I've googled backing up and tried various variations of the following, all
> with no success:
> Suse 10.3's Yast backup
> cp -a
> rsync -a
> tar -cfz
>
> I got an external 500GB drive, and set up three partitions: one for mac, fat
> for win, ext3 for linux.
>
> I've tried so many things that I can't present a concise problem, though the
> most common one seems to be running out of disk space. ('umount'ing all
> partitions except the source & destination solved one problem.)
>
> Very time consuming "experiments", i.e. hours per trial.
>
> I was wondering how Slug'ers are doing system backups (and of course the next
> step is recovery, but that comes later).
>
> Don
I have been using http://www.mondorescue.org/ for about a year now.
Pretty much blows away everything else that I have tried.
You can do a live backup of the system. I exclude mysql db's though for
obvious reasons.
Check it out, it will wow you :)
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