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molinero

Member

From: Copenhagen/Denmark

Registered: 2004-09-19

Posts: 110

Backup

Hi

So my laptop went dead today - the motherboard simply died 

But now I have connected my harddrive to my windows machine and want to make a backup of it. The drive is connected with USB.

Does anyone know of a good way to backup the drive? Any program recommendations?

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Backup

take a look at whats on it and evaluate,

assuming it's a pure arch system, I'd backup my /home, backup all my documents and precious files, backup /etc, get a list of all the packages installed, and backup /var/cache/pacman/pkg.

with all that backed up, you ought to be able to reinstall and get yourself running pretty quick. I've always used tar to backup my files, just tarring up the relevant directories. Others will probably have more sophisticated solutions though. this setup would get you completely reinstalled in pretty quick time, install a base system, copy the packages back in, and reinstall. then reconfigure, looking at the old /etc, and untar home.

James

patroclo7

Member

From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: Backup

Fine advice, just a true KISS backup . Thanks iphitus

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