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 1E742k-0003Ao-Ul for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:36:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7M4YlKe026181; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:34:47 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 j7M4VBCZ021071 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:31:12 GMT Received: (qmail 27324 invoked by uid 0); 22 Aug 2005 04:31:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO croatus) (209.208.34.71) by smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net with SMTP; 22 Aug 2005 04:31:48 -0000 From: "John Dangler" To: Subject: RE: WARNING - reiser and PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:31:48 -0400 Message-ID: <00f101c5a6d2$6c208260$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: <20050822153711.B346.NICK@rout.co.nz> 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 j7M4VBCZ021071 X-Archives-Salt: 92a2f4f1-9548-411b-bb5e-710856e077b7 X-Archives-Hash: 74c465fa264e0ff1eb8002cd29ab4ed3 Thanks for the warning Nick. I've also looked into mondo, but that app has never worked for me (tried to get it running twice over about a month's time, with no success). John D -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:nick@rout.co.nz] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 11:39 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: WARNING - reiser and PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next) I helped a bloke install gentoo a few months ago. We downsized his reiser filesystemed suse install beforehand using the system rescue cd. It screwed the filesystem - it was unrecoverable. be warned. On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:00:10 -0400 John Dangler wrote: > 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 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list