On 01/10/2007, Daniel B. Thurman <dant(a)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.
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So... using rsync, would this work?
cd /backup (/dev/hdb1)
rsync -avr /dev/hda2 .
Thanks!
Dan
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