Accessible image backup and restore program?

[Don Raikes]

I am currently working on an accessible version of the debian rescue live cd.

I have it working pretty well with both brltty and Speakup.

I would also recommend using dd to copy the partition images to a backup medium because it takes an exact image of the partition.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason White [mailto:jason at jasonjgw.net] 
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:18 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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