[Techtalk] Partitioning hard drives

[Indefatigable42]

Rudy, I think that's what I'm looking for, to do a backup from one OS of
selected folders on both partitions. Thanks!

The drive that I'm backing things up to would itself have to be partitioned,
right? Or would it not matter?

Brenda


On 6/25/07, Rudy Zijlstra <rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> Conor Daly wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:26:29PM -0400 or so it is rumoured
> hereabouts,
> > Indefatigable42 thought:
> >
> >> T
> >
> >> My question is, can an external hard drive be partitioned like the
> internal
> >> one, so that the Windows and Linux backups both have partitions that
> match
> >> their own file structure? Or should I have two separate small external
> >> drives, one for Linux and one for Windows?
> >>
> >
> > This is possible to do but is really only of benefit if you want to do
> the
> > backup of each OS _from_ that OS.  OTOH, if your winXP partitions are
> > readable from linux, you could just backup the whole lot from
> linux.  This
> > does have the drawback that you will lose the NTFS file details unless
> you
> > store on an NTFS partition.
> >
> > Conor
> >
>
> I think rdiff-backup has this solved and will store file details as
> well. For more information on rdiff-backup see
> http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
>
> I am using this in a daily automated setup and quit happy with it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rudy
>
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