On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:48, Jamie wrote: > <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?
get a tape drive (dlt is great), tar you system onto the tape drive. If something happens, boot a livecd, and untar from the tape into the partitions.... -- [email protected] mailing list
