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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 00:31:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905200031.32518.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090519235648.5055de03@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 23:56:48 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> it's a live CD, and that's the only safe way to do a whole disk backup.

Well, no. I have a small rescue partition on each of my Gentoo boxes, not 
necessarily on the physical disk to be backed up. Quite useful from time to 
time, such as when doing backups.

-- 
Rgds
Peter



  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-19 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-19 16:59 [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool Jarry
2009-05-19 17:08 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-19 17:50   ` Jarry
2009-05-19 18:06     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-19 18:28       ` Jarry
2009-05-19 18:42         ` Re[2]: " Sergey A. Kobzar
2009-05-19 22:56         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-19 23:31           ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2009-05-20  0:24             ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-20 15:52         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-05-20  0:35 ` Jacob Todd
2009-05-20 16:02 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-05-20 16:48   ` Jacques Montier
2009-05-20 17:01   ` Jarry
2009-05-20 18:33     ` Neil Bothwick

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