Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-31 Thread Jacques Montier
Le ven. 31 août 2018 04:48, Michael Jones a écrit : > try fsarchiver > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Philip Webb > wrote: > >> 180825 Philip Webb wrote: >> > Thanks for the replies : >> > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. >> >> I used 'tar -a' to copy

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-30 Thread Michael Jones
try fsarchiver On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 180825 Philip Webb wrote: > > Thanks for the replies : > > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. > > I used 'tar -a' to copy the contents of the partition to a USB stick, > then copied them

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-30 Thread Philip Webb
180825 Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the replies : > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. I used 'tar -a' to copy the contents of the partition to a USB stick, then copied them back to another partition, updated Lilo & it booted successfully into the new

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-25 Thread Wols Lists
On 25/08/18 10:04, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the replies : > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. > Search for the thread "Backup questions" by Dale 8/8/18. That has a load of ideas, and depending on your host filesystem you have other options. For example,

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
Thanks for the replies : it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-24 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 24/08/18 20:53, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:09 AM Mick wrote: >> However, you may prefer to use clonezilla instead of dd. The dd command will >> copy each and every bit and byte of the partition whether it has data on it >> or >> not. It is not particularly efficient.

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:09 AM Mick wrote: > > However, you may prefer to use clonezilla instead of dd. The dd command will > copy each and every bit and byte of the partition whether it has data on it or > not. It is not particularly efficient. Clonezilla will perform better at > this task.

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-24 Thread Mick
On Friday, 24 August 2018 09:32:23 BST Philip Webb wrote: > I want to make a copy of a partition which I can use to replace it, > if some catastrophe damages the partition or wipes it out ; > it needs to be byte-byte identical, incl all permissions. You are looking to clone a partition. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 04:32:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I want to make a copy of a partition which I can use to replace it, > if some catastrophe damages the partition or wipes it out ; > it needs to be byte-byte identical, incl all permissions. > > Can I use 'dd' ? -- eg 'dd if=/mnt/xxx

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-24 Thread Bas Zoutendijk
Dear Philip, On Fri 24 Aug 2018 at 04:32:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I want to make a copy of a partition which I can use to replace it, > if some catastrophe damages the partition or wipes it out ; > it needs to be byte-byte identical, incl all permissions. > > Can I use 'dd' ? -- eg 'dd

[gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-24 Thread Philip Webb
I want to make a copy of a partition which I can use to replace it, if some catastrophe damages the partition or wipes it out ; it needs to be byte-byte identical, incl all permissions. Can I use 'dd' ? -- eg 'dd if=/mnt/xxx of=/mnt/yyy', where the partition has been mounted at /mnt/xxx & a USB