[lug] Open Source Stand Alone Backup anyone?

[Dave Hagerty]

>It seems to me there should be an open source project somewhere that
would
>allow me to pop in a single CD distro of linux, boot, pop out the CD,
insert

First, you put the TK50 into the drive and boot standalone backup with
b/r5:800 mua0 :-)


Take a look at either g4l or g4u on SourceForge.

                                          Dave



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Dave Hagerty
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried at heintze.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 30. Aug 2005 12:34 -0600
To: "'Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List'"
<lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Subject: [lug] Open Source Stand Alone Backup anyone?

It seems to me there should be an open source project somewhere that
would
allow me to pop in a single CD distro of linux, boot, pop out the CD,
insert
a (possibly multiple) blank DVD to create a compressed image of my
entire
boot disk including MBR and partition information.  Later when my hard
drive
has crashed (from software, not hardware), I would be able to boot from
the
single CD linux distro and restore the boot disk from the DVD. Of
course, I
would be able to restore multiple partitions regardless of what OS
(linux or
windows) was installed in the partition. 

Linux has DVD burners, it has the ability to read its own file systems
(of
course), the ability to understand partitions (fdisk) and even the
ability
to understand Windows NTFS file partitions' contents. This latter
feature
should allow it to backup windows intelligently.

Does anyone know of such a open source project?

Thanks,
Siegfried


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