isit possible to back up the whole / onto a DVD-R and if anything goes
wrong just copy the CD to / ?
sorry for being a noob, but i am a noob..

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:42:49 +0000, coolape wrote:

> isit possible to back up the whole / onto a DVD-R and if anything goes
> wrong just copy the CD to / ?
> sorry for being a noob, but i am a noob..
Yes. Why one should want that?

coolape <webmaster@evilstorm.co.uk> writes:
> isit possible to back up the whole / onto a DVD-R and if anything goes
> wrong just copy the CD to / ?

Certainly, but you need to be 'outside the system'. You should not back up
an active filesystem. If you want to take a snapshot image of / therefore,
you will need to periodically shutdown the system to give a static /
filesystem and then boot up a copy of linux which uses a ramdisk or another
hard-disk partition as the root filesystem.

From there, you can back up your normal root partition to your heart's
content.

Hint: start with the slackware installation boot CD. Change the initrd
image to include your backup-tools of choice. Test using CD-RW's rather
than CD-R's.

Jack
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"coolape" <webmaster@evilstorm.co.uk> wrote:

> isit possible to back up the whole / onto a DVD-R and if anything goes
> wrong just copy the CD to / ?
> sorry for being a noob, but i am a noob..

No offense but that would be a very stupid backup solution, although
it might be possibe.

Create a Norton Ghost bootflop, burn the image + ghost to a blank
DVD-R and you're in business :-)

Hope this helps.

--
Martijn.

Hi,

Martijn schrieb:

> Create a Norton Ghost bootflop, burn the image + ghost to a blank
> DVD-R and you're in business :-)

This is at least less flexible. Why do you think it is better?

Juergen