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From: Joe Menola <menola@sbcglobal.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's next
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:33:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508211233.43655.menola@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00bb01c5a66c$ce659610$0501a8c0@croatus>

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-21 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21 16:24 [gentoo-user] what's next John Dangler
2005-08-21 17:33 ` Joe Menola [this message]
2005-08-21 21:36   ` PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next) John Dangler
2005-08-21 21:58     ` Joe Menola
2005-08-21 23:00       ` John Dangler
2005-08-22  3:38         ` WARNING - reiser and " Nick Rout
2005-08-22  4:31           ` John Dangler
2005-08-21 23:36       ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-22  2:56     ` Brett I. Holcomb
2005-08-21 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] what's next Fernando Meira

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