From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzEcw-0003zq-Em for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:17:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6VEFRMa010362; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:15:27 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6VEBJEB003265 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:11:19 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2005 14:12:20 -0000 Received: from N608P006.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [62.47.19.230] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 31 Jul 2005 16:12:20 +0200 X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <42ECDC4B.8020200@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:12:27 +0200 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sk Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution? References: <42EBB7B6.2010301@gmx.net> <42ECBA79.2030309@asmallpond.org> In-Reply-To: <42ECBA79.2030309@asmallpond.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 826890ae-c829-4371-b445-fefd3f4d09de X-Archives-Hash: 2bad37c603f52e91eea03d51b52ba633 Richard Fish wrote: > I am currently using 'dar' to backup to external USB hard disk. I thought of this too, but I don't know how to "power-off" usb-disk remotelly. On the other side, after burning and unmounting dvd-r, dvd-drive stops spinning (kind of overheating protection)... > 5. chroot, 6. install boot loader Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and 6., and to automate it with some scripts... > One last thing, if you've only got a single CD/DVD drive, you are > probably going to have an issue to have both the live CD and the backup Time to look for an old dvd-rom drive... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list