[PLUG] [Update] -- Re: Copying all partitions of a drive to single partition/directory?

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 21:21:39 UTC 2019


I think Richard is running out of backup-related topics on the internet.
Nothing left to research :(

This might be a good time to try out some of these "back up methods" you've
been researching.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:17 AM Louis Kowolowski <louisk at cryptomonkeys.org>
wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2019, at 9:07 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 01/05/2019 07:26 AM, Tyrell Jentink wrote:
> >> I glanced too quickly at that Montana State page... What I wanted wasn't
> >> there.
> >> Look at the 'mount' Man page, specifically the section on "The Loop
> >> Device": https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
> >> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 05:18 Tyrell Jentink <tyrell at jentink.net wrote:
> >>> [snip] ... This article appears to cover the ins and outs pretty well,
> >>> although I just glanced over it...
> >>>
> >>> http://www.cs.montana.edu/~andrew.hamilton/cs560/VFS/mount.html
> >>>
> >
> > Actually following chains of links from
> > http://www.cs.montana.edu/~andrew.hamilton/ is leading in potentially
> useful directions.
> >
> > As to "[Update]", pondering this thread and my tread about "back up
> methods" has lead to a preliminary goal re-specification.
> >
> > Partition images may be overkill. It looks like:
> >  /home
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/
> >  a yet undefined subset of /usr
> > will actually be more useful.
> >
> > Thanks all.
> >
> If Linux supports dump & restore, that might be a viable way to read all
> the data per-partition, and then you could restore it all to the same
> destination.
>
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