RE: Best way to backup a specific drive?

["Daniel B. Thurman" <dant cdkkt com>]

>On 01/10/2007, Daniel B. Thurman <dant cdkkt com> wrote:
>>
>> I am preparing to backup my root drive in preparation
>> for installing f7.  What is the best way to do this?
>>
>> I have in /dev/hda as:
>>
>> /boot = /dev/hda1
>> /       = /dev/hda2
>>
>> I have backed up /boot with: tar zcvpf /boot.tgz /boot
>
>I'm not sure why you care about backing up /boot - certainly it would
>be unwise to restore this when you have installed F7!
>
>>
>> But have get to figure out how to get /dev/hda2 backed up without
>> picking up the other drives mounted on /
>>
>
>rsync is your friend. man rsync. rsync -avr SOURCEDIR DESTDIR - this
>is assuming you have your backup disk mounted.
>
>-- 

So...  using rsync, would this work?

> cd /backup (/dev/hdb1)
> rsync -avr /dev/hda2 .

Thanks!
Dan


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