Hello dere!
I have just installed a brand new 1 (0ne) Terrabyte WDC external HDD. From a posting I read, I don’t need to format it it.True???
What program do you think is the best for backing up my internal hdd?
Thank you for your thoughts and comments!
The new HDD may already be formatted, probably to a windows format (ntfs or FAT). If you plan to use the drive with windows then leave it, preferably as NTFS.
Otherwise I suggest you format it to ext4
Parted Magic is good for that: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/pmagic-4.5.iso
Backup? How much stuff?
Much of mine is just a duplicate of everything on my internal, copied over.
What program do you think is the best for backing up my internal hdd?
My absolute favourite is rsync. Saves you a lot of time once the initial copy operation has been done. Do some search in the forum archives. I posted a bash script some months ago doing incremental backups with rsync and keeping backup copies for the past 7 days (adjustable) with hard links. Note: this requires a linux file system on the external drive (like ext3 or ext4).
Thank you for the replies, I shall look at them both, and I shall search the forums.
Oh yes. I missed one comment. I am never going to use Windows again. Have you heard my story about losing my hdd?
On 2010-12-02 12:06, vodoo wrote:
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>> What program do you think is the best for backing up my internal hdd?
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> My absolute favourite is rsync.
There are also scripts based on rsync. Some programs I have listed:
amanda
dar
rdiff-backup current copy is a mirror, older copies are rdifs.
rsnapshot current copy is a mirror with hardlinks to older
copies of unchanged files. It uses rsync for all
that.
http://www.dirvish.org/
pdumpfs (http://0xcc.net/pdumpfs)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 2010-12-02, Haoleboy <Haoleboy@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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> Hello dere!
> I have just installed a brand new 1 (0ne) Terrabyte WDC external HDD.
> From a posting I read, I don’t need to format it it.True???
> What program do you think is the best for backing up my internal hdd?
>
> Thank you for your thoughts and comments!
For use as a backup drie, format it in ext3, then use rsync to backuo.
Your could try to have linked snapshots, to have a backup history if you
want that.
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When in doubt, use brute force.
– Ken Thompson
I attempted 3 times to make an .iso cd, and 3 times it told me that is was not bootable… so let’s try rsync. Could someone give me the commands for the tar.gz?
Thank you
How?
What are you trying to do now?
I would like to install rsync, and don’t you have to install it through the terminal? At least that’s what I thought I had to do…
Check if it’s installed in software manager.
If you add ‘grsync’ it gives you a GUI (that’s gnome based)
I think ‘luckybackup’ is a kde based rsync based GUI
On 2010-12-03 17:06, Haoleboy wrote:
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> I would like to install rsync, and don’t you have to install it through
> the terminal? At least that’s what I thought I had to do…
You install rsync as any other program: you ask yast.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Thank you very much for your answers… I have grsync installed, and it works great!
Thanks
Excellent - well done