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 1JWq7C-0005Oo-QE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:40:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEB33E052B; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C53BE052B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n40so1529335gve.39 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:40:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=UdQ64+FE2Em8Wh9bp1mmpXmRXTIQEkNd3yJj4Kplb28=; b=t+vY4o93roEBo5WSGLDWFV0JQMABUzCXqG/tqqgg3ZWwfewYaovH51x9zDTtArpeiXHj4FQeJ9tdTtQq6cAj+ng22eHF36S2cxE1Gey75Q2eLtX7Yd/7GpOGM+DA1shBvWtc2wmEXG02+efnWyYFzxiULIQmL6fPHoTut5KqQlE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=HTPcaXvYZZ0R0BrDxIPwWnGbuGVsGzNnRvvR2Bt0ele+ESGKyvXoF1lWpAedi3jxbAYuBYoO8rWQBOI+eHi6Cpk84tY0gUuZEeTzYaI8m9aJIumhNjwABRxl5qWTGllA/4YkJTNWWrA/43srkmiG2qt82oJ5UDFyzJx/Z414Zxg= Received: by 10.114.61.1 with SMTP id j1mr3974639waa.62.1204710039461; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:40:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from kureyon.gremlins.biz ( [61.10.251.24]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m30sm1293852wag.58.2008.03.05.01.40.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:40:37 -0800 (PST) From: Crayon Shin Chan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:40:28 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1204407864.32499.1240019981@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1204407864.32499.1240019981@webmail.messagingengine.com> 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: <200803051740.28650.crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 621c8224-eb1e-44ba-a923-5eb6faf205cf X-Archives-Hash: 1f5c2accd66da3419f4a9de0aa1b6bf4 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. -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list