From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E6xYZ-00011R-48 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:40:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7LLdFLW017277; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:39:15 GMT Received: from smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net (smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net [209.208.0.105]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7LLZgDx004241 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:35:42 GMT Received: (qmail 24777 invoked by uid 0); 21 Aug 2005 21:36:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO croatus) (209.208.34.71) by smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net with SMTP; 21 Aug 2005 21:36:15 -0000 From: "John Dangler" To: Subject: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next) Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:36:13 -0400 Message-ID: <00da01c5a698$5de51060$0501a8c0@croatus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <200508211233.43655.menola@sbcglobal.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7LLZgDx004241 X-Archives-Salt: 1499c5b5-e070-46ce-a170-09c5752a44e9 X-Archives-Hash: 8899eac2caa4fab22df12e0b9d37371b I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't. a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running? b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems) Thanks for the input, I appreciate it! John D -----Original Message----- From: Joe Menola [mailto:menola@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:34 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's next On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote: > I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out! > It's too flaky at the moment. > I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a > desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a > bork (either from software or operator error) Personally, I prefer to backup at the partition level. Partimage works quite well for me. http://www.partimage.org/ I boot with SystemRescueCd (has partimage built in) to backup and/or restore my partions. http://www.sysresccd.org/ -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list