From: Petre Bandac Subject: rsync backup of a working linux host Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:51:59 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200211101351.59556.g38@rdsbv.ro> Reply-To: g38@rdsbv.ro Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I want to have a backup of a linux system which currently works ok (better to prevent than to cure :-)) my idea is to have a image of the working system somewhere and in case the hdd fails - restore it on another hdd right now I am playing with rsync, but is this the tool I need, or something like dd ? the goal is to have a image of the working system which can be restored on another hdd at anytime. thanks, petre -- 13:11:27 up 1 day, 4:22, 1 user, load average: 0.51, 0.41, 0.25 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs