20 Dec
2003
20 Dec
'03
9:46 a.m.
Anthony DiSante <orders(a)nodivisions.com> writes:
I have a pair of 120GB drives in my system, and a
single 250GB drive
as backup (Western Digital with 8MB cache and 3-year warranty, just
bought at thenerds.net for $233US). The backup drive is in an
external USB2/Firewire enclosure, and I connect it once a week (twice
if I'm feeling paranoid that week) to do the backup:
rsync -av --delete --exclude '/mnt/backup/' / /mnt/backup/
So /mnt/backup/ is then an exact copy of /, and the best part is, it's
bootable and functions just like the original drive(s) if I stick it
on the motherboard. And the backup process usually takes just about a
half an hour, depending on how much new data I've added, of course.
Are you sure it's really bootable? Maybe you should try it.
I doubt that the MBR, /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf are correct for a
single-disk configuration. These should be easy to fix as part of the
recovery process, but you're going to need to boot a rescue disk first
and reconfigure for the new hard disk.
This is still a good method. How do you partition the backup disk?
One big filesystem?
--
joq