Harddrive and backup question?

[limpo]

Hi,

Im wondering what s/n my 80GB bubba has? Is it ST3080640A?

The second question is, what would be the most effective way for me to make a complete backup of all content of my bubba(filesystem/rights/settings)? Can this be done without removing the hd out of bubba?

Im perticulary looking for something like a fast image backup(clonezilla) of bubba? So that I would just have to do a restore to get a fully working system again as before the image creation.

/Limpo

[bjorn]

hi,

1. You're specifying the model number. You can use hdparm to get the serialnumber. "sudo hdparm -i /dev/hda"

2. I've not tried any cloning tools really, but i recon that "dd" could do it. for example you could issue the command "sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/usb-harddrive-mount-point" or something... this isn't optimal perhaps, but would work...

no guarantees on the above though...

[limpo]

Hi,

Im not quit sure of the mounting procedure when it goes for usb connected drives on bubba.

But I guess:

lsusb

mount usb-device /mnt/usb

and then,

cd /mnt/usb

/Limpo

[tor]

Hi limpo,

You might be interested in this thread, http://excito.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=524. Using the rescue filesystem for a complete backup.

Edit, regarding mounting of the usb-device. You most likely do a

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mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

or

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mount /dev/sda /mnt

depending on your device.

/Tor