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punkmikey

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 12

Backup and restore /

Is there a way I can backup my / partition and restore it onto a new drive? I'm fitting a larger drive into my server and would like to avoid the hassle of reinstalling...

Thanks.

evr

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Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Backup and restore /

there are lots of ways to backup your partitions.  Clonezilla probably works well for what you're trying to accomplish.

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: Backup and restore /

Hello punkmikey!

I use bacula, earlier amanda.

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punkmikey

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 12

Re: Backup and restore /

Thanks for the reply guys. I actually ended up reinstalling and just pulling a few config files and my pacman cache off the old drive. I've never really bothered backing up before, but its something I should definitely be thinking about!

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Backup and restore /

I backup my configs, documents regular with a cronjob and tar, and made it quick and painless.  The link is in my sig.

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djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Re: Backup and restore /

I've never really bothered backing up before, but its something I should definitely be thinking about!

It's really very fundamental thiing to avoid the painfull failures in some cases.

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