[larswebb]

I am new to dual booting Windows 2K and ubuntu 7.10. I have a image backup of my c drive before ubuntu was installed. I have automatic differential backups of drive c scheduled using Acronis 10.0. My question is will all further backups include ubuntu? Should I make a new full back of my resized c drive and schedule my differential backups for that, and save the original backups for restoring back to pre -ubuntu if I ever need to?

[CDATech]

I'm not familiar with Acronis. Does the program load independent of windows? If it does the backups might indeed include ubuntu, however if it's strictly a windows based program then it would most likely not be able to read the ubuntu partition and therefore not back it up.

[saikee]

AFAIK all backup software on partition or disk images copy the binary pattern of the hard disk and so the procedure should be system independent, at least that was my experience with Ghost.

Therefore if one can choose the Ubuntu partition then the image should be backed up accordingly.

[kickback999]

If you put your home folder into a seperate linux partition then you should be less likely to need backups.

[Elvandil]

Do you want to back up the Ubuntu partition? If not, change your Acronis schedule to back up just the Win2k partition instead of the whole drive. If the purpose of the backup is to be able to restore 2k, you don't want Ubuntu included.

[larswebb]

I checked Acronis and it sees Seagate C,Ext3 and Linux swap. I guess I can backup all or just one. I checked, and my original backup schedule will backup the whole HD. I guess I'll leave it that way.

[Elvandil]

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