Topic: clonning/backup your SME with a live CD !!!

[oblooblo2000]

need a Live CD:

http://antesis.org/
http://www.morphix.org/
list:
http://www.distromania.com/
http://www.pelttech.com/security/knoppix.htm

and my favourite: http://www.slax.org/download.php


General:
To backup, you can do cmd in a shell:

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1/ booting with a live CD and a backup hdd (no mount of partitions)
2/
save
dd if=/dev/hda | gzip | dd of=/path_to/save.gz
restore
gzip -dc /path_to/saave.gz | dd of=/dev/hda


To clone the two disks (hda is main, hdb is the backup)
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1 (for the mbr)
link:
http://c.laloy.free.fr/howtos/linux/admin/outils_sauvegarde.php


Another one backup solution:
http://www.slax.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15510&highlight=backup

a backup live cd distrib based on slax:
http://4bak.org/