From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6ZcB-0006jE-Q0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 00:24:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C503E0398; Wed, 20 May 2009 00:24:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260C9E0398 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 00:24:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 196928208 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 01:24:49 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 01:24:41 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool... Message-ID: <20090520012441.44c98ed4@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200905200031.32518.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <4A12E55A.3020001@gmail.com> <4A12FA5C.9030609@gmail.com> <20090519235648.5055de03@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <200905200031.32518.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs57 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/._l15BycJ2Wm=2yImTpFs3y"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: bd3611c6-0fa6-4e9e-8fbc-9ec97541d81d X-Archives-Hash: 77d94e7ef873d5e9f7069df1dda7695c --Sig_/._l15BycJ2Wm=2yImTpFs3y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:31:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > it's a live CD, and that's the only safe way to do a whole disk > > backup. =20 >=20 > 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. That's the same thing really,booting from a separate device. A USB stick would do as well, as would a network boot. --=20 Neil Bothwick Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. --Sig_/._l15BycJ2Wm=2yImTpFs3y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoTTc8ACgkQum4al0N1GQPfDQCgqEA7orbFa80xNWw313cqqqyU ciYAoIUDcLRFVDcGALzjqiAHbNS6smkv =KF+j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/._l15BycJ2Wm=2yImTpFs3y--