[aklug] Re: Backing up an entire drive

On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:08:31 Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hey guys... I'm considering making an experimental change to one of my
> Gentoo systems (ripping out and replacing the default rc system with
> openrc). I wanted to back up my entire drive so that in the likely event
> that I render my system non-bootable and in pieces, I can just restore
> everything from a file/image. I've never had to back up an entire drive
> before because in the past I was simply concerned about certain
> irreplaceable data, but in this case I've got a whole dm-crypt + lvm
> disk configuration I want to preserve in a pristine state.
>
> I would appreciate any fatherly guidance about the best way to approach
> this for easy one-time backup and quick restoration (if necessary).

Clonezilla works great. It makes an exact duplicate of your hard drive . While i
have not done the dm-crypt + lvm thingy, I don't think it knows, or cares, about
file system level stuff.

You can clone to a larger drive, leaves extra space as 'free space', looking in
cfdisk.

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Peace
Greg Madden
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