RJT>THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote in a message to ALL:

RJT> TA> I used my "NTI Backup Now 3" to successfully full backup
RJT> TA> the Windows 98se media in the C: and D: portion of the
RJT> TA> partition in my Maxtor Fireball ATA/133 40 GB hard drive
RJT> TA> in my Systemax Tiger 970553 P4 1.8 gHz system; but it
RJT> TA> won't handle my linux SuSE 9.0 in the other partition.

RJT> TA> I downloded the much touted "ESR-Backup-0.98b.5.tar.gz"
RJT> TA> and unpacked it ok on the SuSE KDE desktop but can't
RJT> TA> get it to either perform its full backup and/or it's
RJT> TA> incremental backup.

RJT> TA> I hope some SKS can send me the proper foreplay to make
RJT> TA> "ESR-Backup" perform as advertized; or suggest some
RJT> TA> alternative that this non-geek OT can help me  backup
RJT> TA> the SuSE partition, so I can replace the over burdened
RJT> TA> 40 GB with the new 160 GB waiting impatiantedly on my
RJT> TA> bench.

RJT>I'm not familiar with that particular software package,  but copying a linu
RJT>partition isn't that hard to do.  Stick the new drive in there,  and set up
RJT>your non-linux partitions with those tools.  Boot the old drive into linux,
RJT>use one of the "mkfs" commands (I use ext3 here) to build
a new filesystem
RJT>where it's going to go,  and just copy everything over.  If you have a resc
RJT>floppy for linux that you can boot instead then you can have the new drive
RJT>there as primary,  the old one as secondary or on the second channel,  and
RJT>from there.

RJT>The only thing that might give you a little trouble with this is your boot
RJT>loader.  If it's LILO,  then you need to run LILO with the new configuratio
RJT>place.  If it's grub,  I'm not sure what to tell you,  but no doubt someone
RJT>the linux echo would know.

Thanks for your helpful response Roy. The original installation was
performed by YAST. I have the five CDs to do another installations
if needed (but I would be nerverous to do so with out my son at my
elbow 8-) and would have to do the RPM update. (so much grass to
cut, weeds to pull, etc.,now that summer will be here this weekend 8-)

Ciao, Ack.

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