Simple backup script for GNU/Linux
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| Contact: | cdelord@cdsoft.fr |
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| Author: | Christophe Delord |
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| Abstract: | save.py is a Python script designed to simply backup and restore partitions. Warning This software seems to work but I'm not responsible for any loss of data or crash of your hard disk. This software is provided as is, without any support and users use it at their own risks. Always plug in the power supply when backuping and restoring a notebook. |
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Download and install
save.py can be run in a terminal directly from your favorite GNU/Linux system to backup your data without rebooting (but with some restrictions) or run from a live GNU/Linux distribution. You can also run it from a CDKey for instance.
Please check the MD5 sums of this file:
894dad1e953ff46645f9951fe373274c save.py
How it works
First you must keep in mind that save.py is designed to be simple thus do not expect to do complex things.
All partitions and saved partitions are identified by the label of the partition.
You can use GParted [1] to change labels of your partitions:
- Empty labels and labels starting with a dot, an underscore or a space are ignored (not saveable, not restoreable).
- To avoid problems, do not use spaces, accents or any other strange characters in labels.
- The backup partition shall be labelled Saved.
The format of the backup is automatically determined. Partitions containing an operating system are saved with partclone to make them bootable after restoration. Other partitions are saved with rsync if the backup partition is of the same format (to ease backup exploration while preserving file attributes) or with partclone if the backup partition has a different format (to preserve file attributes). For sake of simplicity (and speed) it's advised to format your backup partition as Ext3 to backup Linux systems or as NTFS to backup some expensive operating systems using NTFS partitions.
Currently only Ext3, Ext4, FAT and NTFS partitions can be saved. Btrfs may be supported soon.
| [1] | GParted can be found on SystemRescueCD for instance. |
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