System backup

berry · 06-20-2002, 03:40 AM

Hi all!

What's the best way to make a system backup? My linux-partitions are 20 megs, so this obviously doesn't fit an a single cd-rom.

Thanks

MasterC · 06-20-2002, 03:42 AM

Dude, I know I can fit 20 megs on my CD's. ha ha ha ha, Well if you are using a burner, you should organize your files that don't need to be in a specific place, and don't need specific attributes, that's the easiest part, and where my experience ends. You burn those in 650 to 700mb (depending on your disc size) chunks. Good luck.

berry · 06-20-2002, 03:45 AM

Well, do I feel stupid....I meant to say that I have a 20 gig drive...

Aussie · 06-20-2002, 06:24 AM

I use Mondo Rescue to do system backups to cdrw.

lacrimae · 06-20-2002, 10:26 AM

my cd rom isn't supported...so I gotta use floppy...can I just copy say my home directory on one, and any programs I have and so forth?

Goatdemon · 06-20-2002, 04:36 PM

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Originally posted by lacrimae
my cd rom isn't supported...so I gotta use floppy...can I just copy say my home directory on one, and any programs I have and so forth?

im not one to be giving advice, being a newbie and all, but i have a buslink CDRW drive and it was detected when i installed the burning program gcombust, also you'll need cdrtools. theres a button in the burn tab... or something like that, that says detect cdrom drive. be sure to adjust the burning speed, default is 2=2x.

hope this helps

berry · 06-21-2002, 02:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lacrimae
my cd rom isn't supported...so I gotta use floppy...can I just copy say my home directory on one, and any programs I have and so forth?

The burning middleware in linux only works with scsi-drives. If you don't have a scsi drive, you have to enable scsi emulation. That sounds difficult, but being a newbie, I got it to work and my burner works perfectly. I'm not at a linux box right now, but if you're interested, I can look up how to enable scsi emulation.