[aklug] Re: Clonezilla

just encrypt it, par2 it, and post it on usenet every few days. Works
like a charm!!!

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Damien Hull <damien@linuxninjas.tv> wrote:
> Interesting idea... I'll have to look into this. I have Jungle Disk. I co=
uld upload an image and rsync a local copy to a remote copy on Jungle Disk.=
 Hmmm... Maybe not. Jungle Disk might have a file size limit. Something to =
look into.
>
> I need a place to store the local image first. One more project I'll add =
to the list.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Royce Williams" <royce@alaska.net>
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 5:33:35 PM GMT -09:00 Alaska
> Subject: [aklug] Re: Clonezilla
>
> damien@linuxninjas.tv wrote, on 10/11/2009 5:00 PM:
>> Just read an article on clonezilla. I'm thinking about using it. Trouble=
 is I need a place to store the image. Then there's the off sight backup is=
sue.
>>
>> I've got a computer I can use for this but I would need a 2TB drive. Two=
 in a RAID 1 configuration would be nice. That's more then enough space to =
backup the 250GB drive in my laptop.
>>
>> Any one want to add to this?
>
> I use Clonezilla on occasion; I find it useful. It's not necessarily
> intended for off-site backup purposes so much as for cloning drives,
> etc. - hence the name. ;-) =A0If you wanted to use Clonezilla for
> disaster recovery, I think that one would be far better off cloning to
> another drive and leaving it in one's Mom's basement - unless that's
> where one was already located. :-)
>
> Otherwise, I would use something that speaks filesystem-level rather
> than block-level for remote backups, so that the diff algorithms can
> be more efficient (a la rsync). =A0Rsyncing a big file that is just
> aware of a big wad of data at the block level would be inefficient, I
> think.
>
> Though now that I think about it, using rsync to update an ISO that
> has only had a few changes is supposed to be efficient, so maybe I'm
> crazy ... I haven't done much empirical testing. =A0But maybe using
> rsync to keep a remote Clonezilla archive updated might be doable. =A0It
> would be easy to test:
>
> 1. Clonezilla your 250G drive to another attached drive to clone1
> 2. Do something small - upgrade a few minor packages.
> 3. Clone again to clone2.
> 4. cp clone1 clone1.bak
> 5. rsync clone2 clone1 (so that it's all local). Note stats at end.
> 6. Do a big change - upgrade lots of packages, etc.
> 7. Repeat test, note stats, compare.
>
> Royce
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