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On 27/04/14 20:10, Julian Hall wrote:
Many thanks to everyone who has replied to this, Grant, Kevin, Simon, Gordon and bad apple. The situation at present is;Hi All,I've been trying different GUI based programs for backup and had most luck with 'luckyBackup', however it's not /that/ lucky because no matter what Exclusions I give it, it keeps trying to add the content of drives that are currently mounted when I've told it to exclude them. I had a go with dd tonight but got this error after a few minutes:sudo dd if=/dev/sda8 of=/media/julian/ARTEMIS/systembackup.img dd: reading ‘/dev/sda8’: Input/output error 17130448+0 records in 17130448+0 records out 8770789376 bytes (8.8 GB) copied, 257.292 s, 34.1 MB/s/dev/sda8 is the root of my Mint installation, ARTEMIS is a USB external HD.Should I try 'luckyBackup' again but with other drives unmounted? Kind regards, Julian
bad apple was right.. I am/was running dd from the active installation, and ermm.. no it didn't /seem/ to work. The block comments from Gordon explain why the img that did result is 8.8Gb when I don't have anything near that used.. 8.8Gb is nearer the size of the partition not the amount of data. So, the USB drive now has an 8.8Gb img file that /may/ have my system in it, and two copies of my Mint installation, one from luckyBackup - I did try doing that with the other partitions unmounted. One copy in the backup.root directory that rsync created.
However, given that I was executing rsync from the running installation I'm not sure even now if any of these are actually valid. I'll try bad apple's advice booting with a Live CD with Gordon's rsync instructions and see what happens.
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