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I have a debian which I use as test server.
needless to say i am keep screewing it up, thats what a test server is for right?
I also have a XP running next to it, same network.
The xp has a DVD burner.
Was wondering if there is a way to save my debian HD image, a bachup or something like that on my XP DVD Rom to restore my debian box after each screew up?
Getting seek of having to keep installing everything.
You could create tarballs of your system using the 'tar' command, transfer them to the XP box, and then burn them to DVDs. For related information, take a look at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete...ecovery-HOWTO/
I would be interested in this as well. Hopefully somebody knowledgeable will answer. Something like "Norton Ghost for Debian". The dd command should be able to do it, but something a little more automated and supporting compression would sure be nice. dump/restore might be a solution for you as well.
The DOS version of Ghost can deal with some Linux partition types, but not all I don't think. I use Ghost for my Windows boxes, along with other per-file backup methods. But for my Linux boxes I don't currently have any HD/partition images, just backups via rsync, tar, etc. I would have to reinstall the base OS from scratch and then restore the backups (which include user data, config data, etc.)
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