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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/22/2014 11:35 AM, Paul Cartwright
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/22/2014 11:17 AM, Preston
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and fsarchiver to back up everything else on my running
system:<br>
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fsarchiver -A -a -v -j2 -o savefs /<backup
directory>/system-backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.fsa /dev/sda1<br>
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My switches tell fsarchiver to:<br>
-A do a live backup of a mounted system<br>
-a don't worry if the partition is mounted
without acl/xattr options<br>
-v be verbose (sometimes don't use this)<br>
-j# use multi-core cpu (i use 2 cores)<br>
-o overwrite the archive if it exists instead
of failing<br>
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I use the date command to keep track of when the backup has
run.<br>
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I really like how fsarchiver "doesn't care" about the size of
the disk you are putting it back onto when I do a recovery.
As long as it fits, you're good (in my experience).<br>
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I just installed fsarchiver, I'll have to play with that.. in your
case you are backing up /dev/sda1, right?<br>
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587</pre>
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correct. so just change it to which one you need. if you want to
archive several partitions just list them like so:<br>
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<font face="DejaVu Sans"> fsarchiver -A -a -v -j2 -o savefs
/<backup directory>/system-backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.fsa
/dev/sda1</font> /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1 <br>
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it will put them in the single .fsa archive.<br>
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Preston<br>
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