Archive for the 'Backup' Category

Sep 30 2009

Making and burning ISO images

Published by amjad under Backup, Centos, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu

There are times when we are faced with either making or burning iso images created by us or downloaded from internet. Most data CDs and DVDs can be accessed on multiple plateforms because they are created using the ISO9660 standard. Using the mkisofs command, we can make iso images from any file and directory structure [...]

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Sep 29 2009

Creating and restoring an image of hard disk with Clonezilla

Clonezilla is an open source disk imaging, cloning and backup software. It supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS. You can use it to clone single or multiple machines. It is more feature-rich than commercial Norton Ghost. In this video tutorial, I will [...]

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Sep 22 2009

Automating rsnapshot backups

Published by amjad under Backup, Centos, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu

In my earlier tutorial, I showed you how to do manual backup with rsnapshot. You should have completely followed that tutorial before continuing on with this one. In this how-to I will describe how to automate rsnapshot backups

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