Thread: Questions about backup and 2007HE2007
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cvmiller is offline cvmiller
2007-10-04 , 16:36
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Originally Posted by tullis View Post
Hi. I've got a couple of questions related to the 2007 hacker edition and backup.

1: Is it possible to create a full backup of my current system, in the style of a fiasco image or similar?

Maybe mounting an smb share and creating a backup with dd to there would work.. Any other tips welcome.

Ben
Ben,

I have a N800, but my comments should apply. I have not tried using dd to make a back up. I suppose it is posible, but you would be left with an image file that might be hard to restore.

Before this latest N800 system upgrade, I mounted one of my linux boxes on the n800, and did a selective tar back up (of things like /etc /usr/ sbin/ ...) and avoided things like /proc /media. This took a surprizing long time, and in the end failed before it got to /var Even still, I still have access to those pre-upgrade files (or most of them), which has helped me in restoring my N800 after the upgrade cleared everything.

In summary, a tar back up would give you more flexibility than dd. You can do a back up to a network server, but you will have to get nfs client or cifs (samba) client working first.

I hope this helps,

Craig...
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