system backup

[dan braun]

Hi there,

I know this is not what you're looking for, but here is goes...

My advice would be get/buy another laptop hard drive (you could prolly use a
bigger one now anyways...) and ghost the current drive image onto the new
drive.

Then install xp on the old drive, and send it back to dell...

Just my two cents...

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Noah John
Gellner
Sent: August 16, 2004 07:50
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: [TLUG]: system backup

I will soon be sending my Dell laptop in for service and figure that I
should send it in with WinXP only installed for the sake of my warranty.
My machine is currently a full linux box. Is backing it up as simple as
tar cf dell.tar /*?

and reinstalling simple as fdisking, reinstalling grub, and then
untaring?

If not, what should I do? And if so, how can I create my tar file on a
remote drive since I dont have enough space on the local drive to allow
a complete copy?

Noah
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