Should you ever need to perform backup of your PC, "Acronis True Image" http://www.acronis.com/ is a fairly good choice, which runs completely inside the XP box, allowing to backup per files/folders, partitions, or entire harddisk, with compression, with wildcard exclusion, at scheduled times, with incremental capabilities, to different media (removable or fixed) - could not really complain too much, if only we could have a open source one. (I receive no commission from Acronis though I wish I could *))
On Linux, simpler
\> dd if="/dev/hda" bs=512k | bzip2 -9 > backup20051228.bz2
To restore the image,
\> bunzip -c backup20051228.bz2 > /dev/hda
No advertisement is complete without a tagline: "do not let at the mercy of MTBF, keep an backup" :p
Posted
Dec 28 2005, 03:50 PM
by
blackinkbottle