Jonathan Haws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this >> sort of stuff. > > The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure.
Of course :) > Hence I was > using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup the entire drive and > not just a single partition. That enables the quickest recovery of the > entire system in the event of a failure. Depends. If you'd just store tar files, you'd just have to create the filesystem beforehand and then restore the tar files. Won't take much longer than restoring a Ghost image, I'd suppose. > I have looked everywhere I can think of to find a tool that is similar to > Ghost that will backup the entire hard drive to an image that I can put to > DVD, without including free blocks on the disk (I don't want an 80GB image > of > an 80GB drive when only 5GB are in use at the time). That's why I'd rather use tar... An additional benefit is, that tar is *MUCH* simpler than Ghost (or partimage). Because of that, you could use your tar file in many more applications (for example if you want to have a look at what the file was at your last backup). > Does anyone know of > a tool capable of this that runs on Linux and has FULL Linux fs support? partimage. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
