> 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
A great idea, but a DLT tape drive is well over $1000 here in New Zealand, and every tape drive I have seen is far more expensive than disk. My ideal solution would be to somehow back up to a drive on another machine on the network (assuming that is possible). -- [email protected] mailing list
