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

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

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
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