Hi Mark,
on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:39:12PM +1300, you wrote:
{Ghost functionality]
I actually think that 'dump' will do what you want... provided you can
choose a time when the machine is not busy (should be easy if it's your
desktop!). You have to do 1 dump per filesystem, but many
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. Hence I was
using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup the entire drive and
not just
Jonathan Haws 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. Hence I was
using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup
Rasmus Andersen wrote:
If you do backup live filesystems/data then dump is on par with dd; both
read from the underlying device and might bypass the kernel's page cache.
Ie., there might be unwritten data cached thats not on disk yet.
Tar/rdiff-backup/etc reads through the pagecache and avoids
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:51:47PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
Understood - I have seen that article too. I must say, I've mainly had
experience with 'dump' on Freebsd and 'xfsdump' on Linux, and never had
restore issues with *either* of these. Now I'm not sure whether these are
supposed to
Rasmus Andersen wrote:
FreeBSD's softupdates should make filesystem state always consistent,
metadatawise. Or so I think I remember, its been a while. That might
aleviate some of the problems noted on the dump page I referenced.
Freebsd's dump -L (live option) uses ufs2 snapshot
On Friday 29 February 2008, Jonathan Haws wrote:
Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system
without reinstalling from scratch?
Don't know about ghost, but take a look at partimage
(http://partimage.org).
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On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 12:27 -0700, Jonathan Haws wrote:
I am having a major problem right now with my laptop.
I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD.
However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made
and it restores just find but
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
Dan Farrell wrote:
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
I wrote:
If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular
/), then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a
backup image that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump,
*dumpe2fs* etc or smart tar/dump based tools like Amanda.
Hmm - dunno what I
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:51:06PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
I wrote:
If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular /),
then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a backup image
that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, *dumpe2fs* etc
I am having a major problem right now with my laptop.
I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD.
However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made
and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3
filesystem is
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
mw
Jonathan Haws wrote:
I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD.
However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made
and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3
filesystem is corrupt and had errors and I would
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
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