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Garry Pettet
Asked: 2013-01-13 02:49:04 +0800 CST

How can I back up my boot drive?

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I am running XBMC on an Ubuntu minimal install. There is no desktop environment installed. Is there a way I can clone my boot drive to a USB drive so that it can be restored at a later date if needed?

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    Rsync is great utility to do backup and cloning. It is pre installed on Ubuntu. You can take backup of live server either on local server or on remote server.

    For example

    rync <source> <destionation>

    following command will backup my all Ubuntu root partition to my remote server (192.168.1.55).

    rsync root@kk:/  [email protected]:/backup_kk

    Another Technique to clone server is take snapshot of root partition of server with Clonezilla, But it requires to reboot server. Your partition must be unmounted at that time.

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