[Coco] old backups, RESTORED!

Richard E. Crisilip rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Thu Jan 6 20:07:50 EST 2011


On Thursday 06 January 2011 19:04:19 Willard Goosey wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:09:20PM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Willard Goosey wrote:
> > >The crash that finally taught me to do backups was the 2000 
crash of
> > >my main Linux machine's drive.  I lost *lots* of stuff there. :-(
> > 
> > What are you using for Linux backup now?
> 
> Short answer:  I write tarballs to CD.
> 
> Long answer: I wrote my own backup suite to do backups because I 
have
> lots of different OSes on my network (Linux, AmigaDOS, MS-DOS) and 
I
> wanted to back them all up.
> 
> So I wrote a set of shell scripts (in whatever the native shell is)
> that archives things up, copies the archives over the network to my
> server, and then the server writes them to CD.
> 
> Unfortunately, my Mac (MacOS7) crashed after I got netatalk working
> but before I could figure out how to make its script.  I haven't tried
> to make an OS-9+drivewire script yet.
> 
> Also, ~ftp is a full CD by itself these days, so I need to do some
> tweaking there.  ;-)
> 
> I've been meaning to put it on the web, if you're interested...
> 
> Willard

Hi Willard,

Have you considered Clonezilla? I used it to backup my tri bootong 
laptop and it worked beautifully. Of course it is am image type backup, 
but it has save my beacon anumber of times. It will do partitions, but I 
perfer the full image.



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