Accessible image backup and restore program?

[Al Sten-Clanton]

Thanks very much!

Al

On 05/26/2013 09:56 PM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Hi Al: Just let grml boot normally without typing anything at the boot
> prompt. When it gets done it makes a little beedly-dop sound with the
> beeper. At that point it is at a menu of choices. Just hit enter and
> it'll drop to the shell prompt. At that point you can type modprobe
> speakup_soft or whatever you want to use then espeakup if you want
> software synth.
>
> Good luck.
>
> On Sun, 26 May 2013, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:
>
>> I just looked for speakup-related info on the GRML wiki but didn't
>> find it?
>> Using "swspeak" in the search entry field got me no results, and using
>> "speakup" did little better.  (No, I didn't use the quote marks there.)
>> Thanks to anybody who can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
>>
>> Al
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of
>> Jason
>> White
>> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 7:18 PM
>> To: speakup at linux-speakup.org
>> Subject: Re: Accessible image backup and restore program?
>>
>> Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What do you recommend for a bootable, accessible backup and restore
>>> solution? Does whatever you recommend use software speech?
>>
>> Grml is my favourite. There are details on the Grml wiki of how to
>> start it
>> with speech (or braille, but that isn't our topic here). However, changes
>> were made in recent versions to the accessibility support, hence the
>> information on the wiki may not be current. I haven't experimented with a
>> recent GRML release.
>>
>> Grml provides essentially every recovery tool you are likely to need.
>>
>> My own solution is somewhat different: I bind mount my partitions in a
>> directory under /tmp, then use rsync to copy everything over to an
>> external
>> drive. This is slightly easier than excluding /dev, /proc, /sys etc., and
>> still gives you the directories in the underlying file system which
>> serve as
>> the mount points.
>>
>> I have only Linux partitions to back up as I don't run Windows on any
>> of my
>> machines.
>>
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