Backups (was RE: commands)

[Adam Myrow]

Well, it's not exactly Ghost, but my favorite utility is EXT2 dump from
http://dump.sourceforge.net.  It is a port of the BSD dump utility, which
also showed up in Solaris under the name UFSdump, since that's the
filesystem that Solaris uses.  It has a strange syntax, but is easy to write
scripts for.  What really comes in handy is to build a statically-linked
version, then put the "restore" utility on a floppy disk or CD.  Then, you
can boot a rescue disk, mount the floppy or CD with restore, and regardless
of what libraries are on the rescue disk, you can restore your backups.
I've actually done a successful restore of an entire Linux system this way.
I just booted the rescue CD and after restoring the backups to
newly-formatted partitions, did a "chroot" command, then ran lilo.  From
there, it was as if nothing had happened.  I doubt it would be that easy in
Windows. 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:04 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: commands

Speaking of drives and such and windows not recognizing them.  What do you
folks use to back up your systems.  I have a box I run Linux on for i r l p
ham radio stuff and I'm looking for a way to ghost or immage the drive. 
I'm told later versions of ghost will do this, but of course wonderful ghost
in its g u i even in dos doesn't talk.

Any suggestions?
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr


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