##############################
#
#Name:logrotate_backup.conf
#
#Description:script designed to produce backups
#grandfather(monthly),father(weekly),son(daily)
#
#Author: Sean D. Conway
#
#Wed Aug 28 18:12:59 CDT 2002
#
#Revision:
#
#NOTE:
#replace the path to be backed up.
#don't remove "" good for files that have spaces.
#maintain the "." file extensions this will preserve the frequency
################################

# mods: DennyHalim.com
# let logrotate do the backup for you

#daily (son)
"/home/oracle/backup/database" {
        daily
        rotate 7
        compress # comment this if your backup is already compressed
    sharedscripts
    prerotate
        #call the script to create a (tar) backup of any folder you want to backup here
    endscript
    postrotate
        #or, if backup is huge and could take very long, put it here to prepare for next backup
        # you could even upload/rsync the backup to other places
    endscript
        }

#weekly (father)
"/home/oracle/backup/database.7.gz" {
        weekly
        rotate 4
        }

#monthly (grandfather)
"/home/oracle/backup/database.7.gz.4" {
        monthly
        rotate 12
        }

[cowgod@ubuntu ~]$ fdisk -u -l /mnt/storage/disk_image 
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.

Disk /mnt/storage/disk_image: 0 MB, 0 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41172ba5

                  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/mnt/storage/disk_image1              63       64259       32098+  de  Dell Utility
/mnt/storage/disk_image2   *       64260    78108029    39021885    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(4861, 254, 63)

[cowgod@ubuntu ~]$ sudo mount -o loop,offset=32901120 -t auto /mnt/storage/disk_image /home/cowgod/Desktop/drive_image