DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: partimage for backup

I think this might be as easy as it gets. It doesn't get you all the way to a backup burned on dvd, but that should be one more easy step from here.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....+fedora

Good Luck!

robiwan,

I love partimage for the backups of my HDD's, there is a long time that I utilize it with other distributions like Suse.
For DSL I install it, the executable (no need of other libs), in /home/dsl/partimage, so it goes in the backup/restore file of DSL, and every time I launch DSL from my USB pendrive, I have it to make backups or to restore, like a rescue tool, of my desktopPC HDD's.
It's a little but essential program for me.

Perhaps is useful in this form for other people :;):

Onyarian.

Hi (Onyarian)

thanks for you usefull posting. it is a real great idea for people which use DSL from a RW medium i.a. USB stick.

But i often start DSL on (old) PC's which cannot boot from USB but it can boot from CD-ROM. So i used to run DSL from a checkcard-CD-RW - small enough to have always with me.

In that case i have NO backup-tool to store i.a. a windows partition on a CD-R bevor i install DSL on this disc.

The easyest way is, that the maintainer of DSL include the partimage binary (just 1MB!!!) to the distro. As Onyarian said: no need of other libs

it would be gread if partimage in in version 1.6 available...

;-) robertwan

Why not just add the partimage binary to your ISO file and then reburn the CD?

Or add the partimage binary to your USB drive or even floppy disk.

That is the purpose of the myDSL system.

It lets you customize your DSL livecd to run additional applications as needed, while keeping the base distro under 50MB in size.

Use bzip2. It's better than partimage anyway.

# bzip2 -1c < /dev/hda > mybackup.img.bz2

creates the image

# bzip2 -dc < mybackup.img.bz2 > /dev/hda

restores it.

Copies it bit for bit, then compresses, so it works regardless of filesystem.

-J.P.

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