Re: Standalone backup on Alpha?

On Oct 25, 7:22 pm, mor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Skipper W. Morris) wrote:
What I'd like to do is just build a minimum bootable root on my primary
system disk so I don't have to fuss with a CD just to do backups.

I know you can do a $BACKUP/IMAGE of the boot CD-ROM onto a disk
drive, and it becomes bootable. You might want to look at doing that
and then transferring those files to an alternate root on the system
disk. I haven't tried it, but there's probably a way to make it
happen.

The other thing is to avoid the issue altogether. Move any volatile
files off the system disk completely. You could then do regular
backups of that alternate disk, and just a "once-in-a-blue-moon"
standalone backup of whatever's left on the system disk.

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