[NBLUG/talk] Backups?

[Warren Raquel]

No problem. First off you would tell partimage to create a backup. let's 
say your backup ends up being 2G in size and you were hoping to save 
your backup on CD. Well, you would tell partimage to create file blocks 
the size of a CD. (i.e. 716800 kBytes). In this case as partimage 
creates your backup it would create file blocks up to around 716800kB. 
In the case of a 2G backup it would create 3 files, 2 around 700M and 
another around 560M. You could then burn these 3 files to a CD-R.

As for saving it on a Knoppix CD, obviously you can't. You would have to 
either 1:have extra space on your computer to save the files for burning 
onto CD later or 2:run a partimaged server on another computer to 
receive the backup stream.

Spanning backup just means that the backup of your system would span 
across a couple of files (like in the method above).

As for partimage you can find more info here: http://www.partimage.org/. 
Partimage does do compression, either gz or bzip2 compression. I suggest 
NBLUG review it for a meeting. It's a pretty handy program.

Micxz (lovedialup.com) wrote:
> Warren Raquel wrote:
> 
>>You could pop in a Knoppix CD and run partimage. It'll make CD size
>>spanning backups if you specify it to.
> 
> 
> Knoppix CD Looks cool' But if it's got linux on it then how can I fit my
> backup on it as well? And what's "partimage"? "Spanning backup's" does
> this compress the data or? Pardon my ignorance - Micxz
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