[ale] Ghost for Linux

[Mike Murphy]

googling for "backing a linux system up to a cd" (which is where this 
discussion lead me mentally) brought me to this, which seems pretty cool:

http://www.bluehaze.com.au/unix/cdbkup.html

I'm planning on fiddling with this this weekend. If it works like I hope 
it will, I'd be able to use it to backup a whole system to cd for a base 
backup, send the cd's offsite somewhere, and then use incrementals and 
send those images to ye' old webhost (well, at least the last 2 should 
fit if I do them weekly, after a few, I'll burn them to cd's too).

This would work for the machine at home that I care about backing up, 
the one where all the data is stored. The others I'd have to rebuild 
from scratch (but that's not such a big deal, if I lose a disk in one of 
those I'll survive, if the house burns down, well, I won't have anything 
to rebuild :) )

Mike


Brian MacLeod wrote:
>>is there a way to exclude directories when using dd?  i 
>>wouldn't want to image the "restore points" if i could help it.
> 
> 
>>preston
> 
> 
> That's part of the trade off with using dd this way.  You're taking a
> snapshot of the partition and any file system on it.  Excluding files
> would require reading the file system and pumping that out to an
> appropriate piece of software (like tar).  
> 
> Fortunately, I don't have many XP machines to take care of, and they
> behave well enough with the points copied.  I will also admit this
> process can be slow, but I've found it invaluable for forensics, since
> it produces exact copies.
> 
> Brian
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