Howto: Backup and restore your system!

[PoPpiLLs]

cigtoxdoc take a look at APTonCD http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/

[Haluci]

Thanks for the howto! I just have a couple questions about it:

1. I'd like to create the .tgz file on an external hard drive (which I know how to mount). How would I type that in the tar command?

2. I have two partitions on my hard drive I'd like to backup: an unbuntu partition and a windows partition. Would the procedure be the same for both (I'll exclude the... exclude options on the windows partitions)?

Thanks for the help!

[bgs100]

tar cvpzf {Insert External Hard Drive Location Here (example: /media/Maxtor/ or maybe /mnt/Maxtor/) and include slash at end}backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys /

[Thirtysixway]

Will this work if moving your system to a new, larger harddrive?

[bgs100]

Thanks for the howto! I just have a couple questions about it:

1. I'd like to create the .tgz file on an external hard drive (which I know how to mount). How would I type that in the tar command?

2. I have two partitions on my hard drive I'd like to backup: an unbuntu partition and a windows partition. Would the procedure be the same for both (I'll exclude the... exclude options on the windows partitions)?

Thanks for the help!

Do you want to backup the external hard drive, or just put a backup of your computer on it?

[bgs100]

New version of shbackup available.

[BassKozz]

New version of shbackup available.

shbackup?

[thomasr]

Another nice method is Remastersys

http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/

[pshootr]

Thanks for the tut. I did a backup and I got this message at the end. (tar: /: file changed as we read it) Is this normal? Thanks

[Haluci]

tar cvpzf {Insert External Hard Drive Location Here (example: /media/Maxtor/ or maybe /mnt/Maxtor/) and include slash at end}backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys /

Thanks! So, if I'm backing up a partition from a live cd, would I have /dev/sda2 (for example) at the end or would I be better off navigating to the root of both partitions?