[NBLUG/talk] Backups?

[Micxz (lovedialup.com)]

Great!! Thanks!! This really clears up my confusion. - Micxz

Warren Raquel wrote:
> 
> No problem. First off you would tell partimage to create a backup. let's
> say your backup ends up being 2G in size and you were hoping to save
> your backup on CD. Well, you would tell partimage to create file blocks
> the size of a CD. (i.e. 716800 kBytes). In this case as partimage
> creates your backup it would create file blocks up to around 716800kB.
> In the case of a 2G backup it would create 3 files, 2 around 700M and
> another around 560M. You could then burn these 3 files to a CD-R.
> 
> As for saving it on a Knoppix CD, obviously you can't. You would have to
> either 1:have extra space on your computer to save the files for burning
> onto CD later or 2:run a partimaged server on another computer to
> receive the backup stream.
> 
> Spanning backup just means that the backup of your system would span
> across a couple of files (like in the method above).
> 
> As for partimage you can find more info here: http://www.partimage.org/.
> Partimage does do compression, either gz or bzip2 compression. I suggest
> NBLUG review it for a meeting. It's a pretty handy program.