Best way to backup a specific drive?
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Oct 2 04:34:18 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:48 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman 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
>
> But have get to figure out how to get /dev/hda2 backed up without
> picking up the other drives mounted on /
If you were backing up via devices, it wouldn't matter what was mounted
within it, that's a filing system issue.
Tarballs, as you gave the example, are going the filesystem route. You
could issue a string of commands just doing certain mount points, rather
than all of /. That might be more useful, then you could back up /home
and restore parts of /home, for instance. Likewise, you could
separately back up /usr, and so on.
This is a very bad idea:
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