Backup of bootfloppy & USB-pen-drive

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: Backup of bootfloppy & USB-pen-drive
started by: Key

Posted by Key on Mar. 16 2006,13:44

I have done some modifications to my USB-bootfloppy. Also I have done some changes to my USB-pen-drive. Now I would like to backup both.

Which is the easiest and best way?
How to backup/testore from/to an image-file?

Maybe there is also a possibility to copy them in some way?

Thank you.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 16 2006,15:18

Floppy backup:

Code Sample

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/some/filename.img

Floppy create:

Code Sample

dd if=/some/filename.img of=/dev/fd0

I assume you could do the same with /dev/sda1, but it's probably not necessary with the read-only base system (that would add 50mb of data to a backup). DSL has a builtin feature to backup your data, which can be used to make a backup on any writeable device.

Posted by dare2dreamer on Mar. 16 2006,17:05

Assuming all you need is your personal settings for DSL, just copy the backup.tar.gz off the usb drive to some secure location.

Posted by Key on Mar. 16 2006,22:28

Thank you.

I haven't thought, that a backup/restore of both is so easy.