Comments on: Backups and the System Rescue CD

by: wusuvi

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:13:14 +0000

all comments are useful to me cos am seeing senses in them thankx

by: djswarm

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:56:17 +0000

This seems like a nice way to backup for a catastrphic failure, grabbing partition tables and all. But if one is using LVM, and most seem to be, set your disk up to use snapshots and just automate the entire backup process in cron to a hot usb drive. Swap the drive out once a week and you are done.

You can even setup for incrementals and what not.

This seems like a better solution than depending on discipline and rebooting.

by: bushidoblade

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:50:55 +0000

To Jerry Housewright:
To “repair” a disk that Windows says its been corrupted, and you don’t have any data in it, you need only gparted: delete all partitions in the corrupted disk and recreate them as needed. Or if you feel comfortable with CLI, the same you can do using the commands: sfdisk or cfdisk. I hope this aided you. Good luck

by: Jason Perlow

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:51:01 +0000

That looks very promising, Yao. Is that your program?

by: Yao-Tsung Wang

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:40:58 +0000

You can also use clonezilla-live to backup your system, too. check out the website
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/
and download clonezilla-live :)

Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone software similar to Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. By using clonezilla, you can clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

by: Jerry Housewright

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:46:40 +0000

I hooked an external 200gb to my laptop.It done something to it. Now Windows will recognize it, but says its been corrupted.I used the System Rescue CD 0.3.5, but can’t figure out which software to use to repair it.Went to System Rescue CD website and still can’t find the software I need. Can someone help me on this?

by: joe doran

Sun, 27 May 2007 15:15:17 +0000

Jason,

Thats Excellent news.
And thanks to François Dupoux

Wahoo! I love Open source!

Joe.

by: Jason Perlow

Sat, 26 May 2007 20:44:37 +0000

To Joe Doran:

I conferred with François Dupoux this weekend, the author/maintainer of SysRescCD, and he was able to fold Mondo Rescue into the latest SysRescCD beta!

http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1515

So now you can have both, all from one CD. You can even do DVD backups direct from SysRescCD because it caches the data and you can remove SysRescCD while running Mondo Rescue.

by: rmarquez

Fri, 25 May 2007 20:42:14 +0000

I would like to backup a current server, with it’s partition info and the data all on DVD (the whole server with OS and website uses less than 7GB). Can I use system rescue cd to achieve that?

by: Iray Valo

Fri, 25 May 2007 07:31:42 +0000

Very informative. It reminds me I need to take some time and backup a few workstations.

2 remarks and 1 question :
1- Check also for a promising new front-end to cdrtools on Win.

2- Figure 4 is the same as figure 3.

3- How about backing up a MacOS X PPC box ?