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Hi. I have got my system nice and smooth, used the built-in backup
utility, and saved to /tmp.backup.tar.

After doing this i thought i’d copy the backup files to another drive
but i get the error- ‘could not read /tmp/backup.tar’. Trying to save to
DVD i’m told ‘i cannot as i don’t have permission to copy the files’ :\

3 questions arise…

  1. Why the system cannot read the files to copy to another drive (which
    i have read/write permission for).

  2. How can i gain access that would allow me to copy the files to DVD.

  3. Is it possible in the event of a system failure (if i cannot boot to
    desktop but can get to command line), access the files to initiate a
    recovery and what would the commands be?

Regards

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Check out this by oldcpu
‘Cloning an old drive to a new drive - openSUSE Forums’
(http://tinyurl.com/dfkz3f)

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caf4926;1940660 Wrote:
> Check out this by oldcpu
> ‘Cloning an old drive to a new drive - openSUSE Forums’
> (http://tinyurl.com/dfkz3f)

IMHO cloning is not for nominal backups. Rather, in the example
quoted, cloning was intended to completely replace an old drive, with a
new drive.

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