> At 08:48 PM 4/19/99 +0000, Collin McClendon wrote:
> >I'm finding it almost impossible to backup my linux box.
> >I have / /usr /usr/local /home partitions.
> >I tried tarballing them all onto a second drive but linux cold
> >crashed:(.
> >I am going to try to use this arkeia program, it seems friendly but I
> >can't get it to
> >work, and besides I'm not sure how I would reinstall linux from the
> >archives I would have
> >made, if I could just tar everything I could boot a floppy version of
> >linux and restore
> >from there...Anyway if anyone has backed up their system let me know...
> >
>
> A pretty good back -up solution I've used before is Amanda. It may be more
> then you need for a single machine, but it has worked well for me in the past
.
>
> Check it out at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/
>
> -Miles
do you have sample .conf file handy? I just compiled it, seems interesting if
not exactly super friendly.
The whole process makes sense, but what I need is so simple, say to backup 4
partitions to
a file on my secondary harddrive...and then to burn these to cdrom. The best
thing I can think of would be a solution from which
I can make a bootable cdrom, and then store the archives on cdrom to be extract
ed
to my disk. I can think of one problem though, in that
say I have a blank harddisk...I have no linux or any other operating system, ho
w
would I unarchive the boot record etc? If I had more time right now I guess I
could research all the options, but for dos its much much easier, I use ghost
which copies a whole partition to an image. No formatting or other stuff is
necessary. Ghost does support linux partitions but I don't think I can restore
them in serial, once I write one partition I'm not sure if I can transfer the
remaining images back to the free space left on the harddrive. Worth a try
though.
Cmc
Sorry if I was confusing...been working for hours on this backup issue