From: Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:40:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803051740.28650.crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204407864.32499.1240019981@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Sunday 02 March 2008, davecode@nospammail.net wrote:
> "What supports what" is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For
> example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these
> years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device
> backup if you like. This is your basic choice in backup - device or
> fs. Me personally, dd_rescue - far better than raw dd.
The advantage of something like partimage, which knows about the
filesystem being backed up, is that it can back up only the used portions
of the fs. So eg if you're backing up a 20GB partition of which only 1GB
is in use, then using partimage it will be very quick and the resulting
image very small.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-01 21:44 [gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition davecode
2008-03-05 9:40 ` Crayon Shin Chan [this message]
2008-03-05 11:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-03-05 12:24 ` cypherstrong
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2008-02-29 19:27 [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Haws
2008-03-02 13:43 ` Rasmus Andersen
2008-03-02 23:43 ` Mark Kirkwood
2008-03-03 20:17 ` Jonathan Haws
2008-03-04 8:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
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