On Apr 6, 2005 1:40 PM, Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob, this is great info. Thank you. I have one question, though... I've > wanted to backup in the past by copying partitions, but found little > obvious documentation on it. Is this something done with a basic tool > like dd? >
You can do it with it with dd, but it is not always the easiest nor the best way since dd makes a bit by bit (actually block by block) copy of the contents of one device to another. Once you get past dd things become rapidly different and Operating system specific. If you are dealing with a BSD or BSDish Linux, you will want to take a look at dump and restore which have facilities for error correction, compression, and progressive dumps (you only copy those blocks that have changed or been added to the filesystem). partimage (http://partimage.org) is a program I've been experimenting with and that seems to have many of the capabilities I want but it currently lists two of the fs_types I need as experimental, which makes me nervous. If you are running Debian or gentoo it is probably already installed on your system. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
