Easy backup?
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Easy backup?
started by: Patrick
Posted by Patrick on Sep. 15 2005,13:03
Howdy people,I'd like to have a tool in my DSL-stick which i can use to make backup's for:
my usb-stick to Harddisk
my harddisk1 to harddisk2
my partition1 from Hardisk 1 to hardisk2
my hardisk1 to a remote harddisk
I tried to use bzip2 to do this but i can't get it to copy /cdrom to /mnt/hdb5/dslbackup (cause i am stupid
)(/cdrom is my usbstick=sda1)
There are 2 ways i can get this to work:
1) make/find a script
2) find a deb/dsl that can do all this
(i tried rescue.dsl but that's for remote backing up)
Any ideas?
For starters i'd like to know the right syntacs to copy my usb-stick to a directory on a Hardisk. (i booted from this stick/DSL15)
sudo bzip2 -1c < /cdrom > /mnt/hdb5/dslbackup/image.img.bz
??
Posted by clivesay on Sep. 15 2005,13:35
Hi, Patrick. To image you need to specify the disk or partition. So instead of /cdrom you need /sda or /sda1 depending on whether you want to image the entire drive or just the partition. This method works well. I use it to image pendrive installs.
Chris
Posted by Patrick on Sep. 15 2005,13:43
sudo bzip2 -1c < /dev/sda1 > /mnt/hdb5/image.img.bzGot it...
THNX
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 16 2005,01:36
could also tar and bzip:tar -cvjf /mnt/hdb5/image.tar.bz2 /cdrom/