Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "What supports what" is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For > example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these > years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device > backup if you like. This is your bas

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Schmarck
Jonathan Haws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this >> sort of stuff. > > The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Of course :) > Hence I was > using Ghost ins

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread davecode
"What supports what" is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device backup if you like. This is your basic choice in backup - device or fs. Me personally, dd_res