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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

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...

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

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 or depending on your device.

/Tor