promac wrote:
[ You can do this way, but ideally your file system should be unmounted (boot from a live CD/DVD).
I, personally, use BackupPC for /home and partimage for the file system (/ and /boot).
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:02 AM, gmspro@yahoo.com wrote:
promac wrote:
[ You can do this way, but ideally your file system should be unmounted (boot from a live CD/DVD).
I, personally, use BackupPC for /home and partimage for the file system (/ and /boot).
-- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ ]
Would someone please tell how to use partimage to backup whole fedora 10 system in detail?
rpm -qa | grep partimage partimage-0.6.7-5.fc10.i386
Please, read:
/usr/share/doc/partimage-0.6.7/README.partimage.html
I also downloaded systemrescuecd and burned it. But can't use it to backup whole fedora 10 system(actually I don't know how to use it) Booting this cd can't find graphical option.
Try "xinit"
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x29032902
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1912 15358108+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda2 1913 9449 60540952+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 9450 9729 2249100 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda5 1913 5609 29696121 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda6 5610 8286 21502971 83 Linux /dev/sda7 8287 9449 9341766 83 Linux
I am trying to backup /dev/sda6 partition. Is it necessary to backup the /proc , /sys, /lost+found , /media, /mnt, directory to be backed up?
Is it possible to backup /dev/sda6 partition excluding these directory(/proc , /sys, /lost+found , /media, /mnt,) with partimage or systemrescuecd?
Partimage will make a copy of the whole partition. You cannot exclude anything.
If I copy the whole /dev/sda6 partition in a portable hard disk(250GB),then 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 ?
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, fstab in some cases and/or run mkinitrd to recreate the initial initrd img.