Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Mark, on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:39:12PM +1300, you wrote: >> {"Ghost" functionality] >> > I actually think that 'dump' will do what you want... provided you can > choose a time when the machine is not busy (should be easy if it's your > desktop!). You have to do 1 dump per filesystem, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Jonathan Haws 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. Hence I was using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-03 Thread Jonathan Haws
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. Hence I was using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup the entire drive and not jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Rasmus Andersen wrote: FreeBSD's softupdates should make filesystem state always consistent, metadatawise. Or so I think I remember, its been a while. That might aleviate some of the problems noted on the dump page I referenced. Freebsd's dump -L (live option) uses ufs2 snapshot capability

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-02 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:51:47PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Understood - I have seen that article too. I must say, I've mainly had > experience with 'dump' on Freebsd and 'xfsdump' on Linux, and never had > restore issues with *either* of these. Now I'm not sure whether these are > supposed

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Rasmus Andersen wrote: If you do backup live filesystems/data then dump is on par with dd; both read from the underlying device and might bypass the kernel's page cache. Ie., there might be unwritten data cached thats not on disk yet. Tar/rdiff-backup/etc reads through the pagecache and avoids t

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:51:06PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > I wrote: >> >> >> If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular /), >> then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a backup image >> that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, *dump

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular /), then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a backup image that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, *dumpe2fs* etc or smart tar/dump based tools like Amanda. Hmm - dunno what I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 "Ritesh Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 "Ritesh Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to > > > recover my system without > > > reinstalling from scratch? > > > > > > > I've had

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 12:27 -0700, Jonathan Haws wrote: > I am having a major problem right now with my laptop. > > I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. > However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made > and it restores just find bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 29 February 2008, Jonathan Haws wrote: > Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system > without reinstalling from scratch? Don't know about ghost, but take a look at partimage (http://partimage.org). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread Ritesh Kumar
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to > > recover my system without > > reinstalling from scratch? > > > > I've had success with #dd if= > of= bs= > > Is there a reason why you backup the filesystem along with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Jonathan Haws wrote: I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3 filesystem is corrupt and had errors and I would hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread maxim wexler
> Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to > recover my system without > reinstalling from scratch? > I've had success with #dd if= of= bs= mw Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all wi

[gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread Jonathan Haws
I am having a major problem right now with my laptop. I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3 filesystem is corru