<snip> > > That's what a backup image, a snapshot of the system taken periodically > when everything is known to be working, is useful for. =8^) > <snip>
A good piece of advice and one that I really should follow. What is the best way to take an image of the Gentoo install? In my case my Gentoo install resides on /dev/hda2 (boot) ; /dev/hda3 (swap) and /dev/hda5 (root) - is it possible to use something like dd to image these partitions to a disk somewhere else on my network? Is this a good/bad/non-workable idea? I would welcome any constructive advise on this as the many hours of building a Gentoo box is not something I want to do too often so being able to image prior to any major upgrades would be a great safety net... Cheers Jamie (back to Gentoo after a short period with Ubuntu!) -- [email protected] mailing list
