Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What supports what is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device backup if you like. This is your basic

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Schmarck
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread davecode
What supports what is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device backup if you like. This is your basic choice in backup - device or fs. Me personally,