On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 "Ritesh Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to > > > recover my system without > > > reinstalling from scratch? > > > > > > > I've had success with #dd if=<partition-to-be-copied> > > of=<partition-to-be-copied-to> bs=<varies> > > > > > Is there a reason why you backup the filesystem along with the data > on it? I do only minor backups... but even for anything major I would > use a tool like tar or rsync and drop the filesystem metadata > entirely. > > Also directly reading from the block device is hazardous unless you > umount (or mount as readonly) the filesystem in question. This is > because, the filesystem may not keep all the data synced to the disk > at all points in time. not that i'd recommend it for production systems, but you could mount with the 'sync' option to help with this. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
