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 Posted: Thu May 23, 2002 2:30 am Post subject: Backing up gentoo howtoo? |
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There needs to be a forum for backing up gentoo 
How would I go about backing up gentoo so that if It totaly crashed on me and wasn't savable from the rescue disk so I could do a "quick" reinstall bypassing all those long hours or hell (ok so it was kinda fun) installing from stage1? I have a cdburner (isn't working yet but will be soon) guess I just need to know what to backup. Thanks. |
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| Posted: Thu May 23, 2002 9:26 am Post subject: |
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hi,
check out http://www.partimage.org/... i use this to create backups... but to tell the truth..... i never tried to restore/recover...
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| Sweet just what I was looking for. Now the only question is what to backup. I should say which paritions, or should I backup both root and boot? Now on my root partition I have quite a bit of stuff there, and the partition is 11gigs. My boot parition is 800 megs (couldn't figure out the conversions in fdisk for boot and swap so had to guess). Well then I have to get my burner working. Thanks, i am pretty sure I can take it from here. |
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| FINITE wrote: | | Sweet just what I was looking for. Now the only question is what to backup. I should say which paritions, or should I backup both root and boot? Now on my root partition I have quite a bit of stuff there, and the partition is 11gigs. My boot parition is 800 megs (couldn't figure out the conversions in fdisk for boot and swap so had to guess). Well then I have to get my burner working. Thanks, i am pretty sure I can take it from here. |
When you're in fdisk, and you make the first partition (for /boot), tell it to start at the first cylinder, then when it asks you for the ending cylinder, you can instead tell it "+100M", to make it grow to 100MB, and stop wherever that happens to be. |
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