Trixbox HD backup After configuring my box exactly as I wanted, I realized that there is no good solution to backup my HD that can save the image to a network dive in reasonable time ( less than one hour) and restore to a different size drive.
I had my hands on BartPE with Norton Ghost, G4L, G4U, Part Image, Knoppix, Ubuntu,
Every one of these had one or more problems like: can’t support EXT3, can’t boot from a CDROM connected to PCMCIA slot, discover different PCMCIA NICs ( my TRXbox on a laptop), create the backup in less then an hour for 10G drive, restore to a smaller drive.
After all combination of Acronics True Image home addition and Super Grub disk is what works for me: Acronics TI has discovered any hardware configurations I tested so far and saved images to network, restored on any drive.
For my 10G drive backup or restore takes about 20min.
Only problem was to reload Grub if the restore has been done on the different size drive,
The SGd works fine, takes les than 3 min to fix the bootloader. |