From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWH6M-0004Qy-O2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:17:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A32FE0433; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sati.usurf.usu.edu (sati.usurf.usu.edu [129.123.194.130]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63D1E0433 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.31.20.116] ([172.31.20.116]) by sati.usurf.usu.edu over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:17:31 -0700 From: Jonathan Haws Organization: SDL To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:17:30 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200802291227.35724.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> <20080302134300.GL9879@avlebavle.dk> <47CB3BBF.9040801@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <47CB3BBF.9040801@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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: <200803031317.30818.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Mar 2008 20:17:31.0631 (UTC) FILETIME=[9C3D87F0:01C87D6B] X-Archives-Salt: 2a14a4ca-62d8-42a0-b072-885d804bdafc X-Archives-Hash: 7617a84415ed0145532e235762330520 On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this > sort of stuff. The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Hence I was using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup the entire drive and not just a single partition. That enables the quickest recovery of the entire system in the event of a failure. I have looked everywhere I can think of to find a tool that is similar to Ghost that will backup the entire hard drive to an image that I can put to DVD, without including free blocks on the disk (I don't want an 80GB image of an 80GB drive when only 5GB are in use at the time). Does anyone know of a tool capable of this that runs on Linux and has FULL Linux fs support? -- Jonathan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list