partition backup

jackren · 10-09-2004, 06:41 AM

Can anyone advise me of a good, save and simple program to backup partition on DVD?
It must support ext3, reiserfs and fat32.
I tried a lot of profgrams already: norton ghost- doesn't work ok with reiserfs to DVD
partimage - to complicated and lots of errors
mondo - works ok with cd but errors with DVD

ps I have a system running debian Sid , kernel 2.6.8

Andrew Benton · 10-09-2004, 11:03 AM

Tar is excellent for making backups. For better compression use bzip2 as well. To backup the folder /folder mounted on /place (ie, /place/folder)

cd /place
tar cjf folder.tar.bz2 folder

You need to have write permissions in /place so you may need to do that as root. To uncompress it again, mount an empty partition on /place/folder then

cd /place
tar xjpf folder.tar.bz2