My English practise through technology.
Since Microsoft has decided to exclude :-( the powerful utility, commonly known as Ntbackup, from windows 7, we shall try some other tools to make a full backup of a disk.
The Os we 'll be using is linux Fedora 16.
Given Scenario:
We have two usb disks, the first 120Gb will be fully backed up to the second one 500Gb.
Since Microsoft has decided to exclude :-( the powerful utility, commonly known as Ntbackup, from windows 7, we shall try some other tools to make a full backup of a disk.
The Os we 'll be using is linux Fedora 16.
Given Scenario:
We have two usb disks, the first 120Gb will be fully backed up to the second one 500Gb.
- Connect both disks to linux, preferably via usb connectors.
- Linux automatically mounts them in the folder /media as /media/disk1/ and /media/disk2/
- In order to determine which disk contains the file structure to backup, open a command line terminal and use the command "ls -ltr /media/disk1/" and "ls -ltr /media/disk2/" without the double quotes. Disk1 contains the file structure. Disk2 is blank.
- We 'll use the tar and gzip commands to backup the disk1. Tar makes a destination file to disk2, which is used as a backup container for disk1. Tar uses .tar extension, and gzip compresses the tar file to a .tar.gz extension. The tar is equivalent to Microsoft Ntbackup. The disadvantage is that is a command line utility. In contrast with tar, Microsoft Ntbackup was fully graphical and easy to use.
- Now, use the following command syntax (without the double quotes) to backup disk1 to disk2
- "cd /media/disk1/; tar -cvf - . | gzip > /media/disk2/oldbackup010612.tar.gz" and then press enter.
- This command syntax tells us "Go to disk1, start taking the backup of disk1 to disk2 through gzip compression". The final result is a backup file oldbackup010612.tar.gz with a reduced file size of the initial disk1 size.
- ........I wish Ntbackup back!!!!!
