RE: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

["John Dangler" <jdangler@atlantic.net>]

Joe~
Thanks for the reply.  I was reading the information on the system rescue
site (from your last reply), and I think this could work fine.  I'm reading
through the rest of the documentation to see how to use this to perform
backups.  I did notice that SystemRescueCd is currently using a 2.4 kernel.
Have you seen any hiccups using this with a much more current kernel
release? (Mine is 2.6.12-r9)

John D


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Menola [mailto:menola@sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:59 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's
next)

On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> 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!

There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since
partimage 
cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you want to setup a 
partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup partitions from other 
operating systems while running Gentoo.

SystemRescueCd is an iso file, you use it to burn a bootable cd to perform 
misc tasks on your pc.  Basically, for partimage use... you boot from the
cd, 
mount a partition to write the backup images to and run partimage. 

Highly recommended: http://www.partimage.org/doc/index.html

-jm
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