Re:A snapshot of your computer with dd, pv and gzip - Part 1
by keithpeter on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:49PM
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I use clonezilla to image the whole hard drive including OS once I have a 'clean' setup with an empty home and all my software installed.
Then I use rsync to copy all my 'stuff' back off a large external hard drive to the 'clean' installation. I try not to change OS to often :-)
Subsequently I use rsync with --delete set to sync the home drive only to an external drive of similar capacity to the computer drive for daily changes. This drive is ex4 and preserves ownership and permissions, and includes dotfiles.
Once a week there is rsync without --delete to a large external hard drive as 2nd backup. This drive is NTFS and does not preserve permissions and excludes dotfiles.
I have a free dropbox account for really crucial 'working' files. That gets rsync'd to a FAT32 stick each day using the 'time window' command so it does not write everything each time.
Basically the clonzilla whole drive backup is just to save time/bandwidth with re-installing and setting up. The rsync backup to the large drive is file readable on work PCs that use Windows should disaster strike. The 'sync' to the small hard drive is readable at file level on anything I can boot from a live CD.
Now, a bootable whole disc image would be of interest now and again.
Then I use rsync to copy all my 'stuff' back off a large external hard drive to the 'clean' installation. I try not to change OS to often :-)
Subsequently I use rsync with --delete set to sync the home drive only to an external drive of similar capacity to the computer drive for daily changes. This drive is ex4 and preserves ownership and permissions, and includes dotfiles.
Once a week there is rsync without --delete to a large external hard drive as 2nd backup. This drive is NTFS and does not preserve permissions and excludes dotfiles.
I have a free dropbox account for really crucial 'working' files. That gets rsync'd to a FAT32 stick each day using the 'time window' command so it does not write everything each time.
Basically the clonzilla whole drive backup is just to save time/bandwidth with re-installing and setting up. The rsync backup to the large drive is file readable on work PCs that use Windows should disaster strike. The 'sync' to the small hard drive is readable at file level on anything I can boot from a live CD.
Now, a bootable whole disc image would be of interest now and again.