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 1E6tlq-0000FA-G3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:38:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7LHajen001129; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:36:45 GMT Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.103]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7LHXApa025143 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:33:11 GMT Received: (qmail 79308 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2005 17:33:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (menola@sbcglobal.net@68.79.49.13 with plain) by smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Aug 2005 17:33:43 -0000 From: Joe Menola To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's next Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:33:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <00bb01c5a66c$ce659610$0501a8c0@croatus> In-Reply-To: <00bb01c5a66c$ce659610$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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508211233.43655.menola@sbcglobal.net> X-Archives-Salt: 3c5c482e-3562-4f28-9ae3-ae3eea9abb6f X-Archives-Hash: f366343dc49bf0aef4ca8f886cfa707c 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