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 1JWsE6-0003d0-PI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:56:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF17EE0467; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D8DE0467 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A6EA66137 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:56:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.342 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.342 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.612, BAYES_05=-1.11, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION=0.156] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id v-TNgDCBQ1Fx for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:55:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A875665B2 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JWsDr-0000q0-AN for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:55:47 +0000 Received: from 62-2-78-98.static.cablecom.ch ([62.2.78.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:55:47 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by 62-2-78-98.static.cablecom.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:55:47 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:55:41 +0100 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?xYI=?= Message-ID: <2067205.lOTMFTo98f@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> References: <1204407864.32499.1240019981@webmail.messagingengine.com> <200803051740.28650.crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62-2-78-98.static.cablecom.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 11893843-be71-422b-a143-0b861891472d X-Archives-Hash: d23f048ef833be22633cec4cbd0805cf Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > 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. Yes, it can. But you achieve the same (only used stuff is backed up) with a simpler tool like "tar" as well. > 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. Then the tar file will also be just 1GB. I really don't see the benefit in using things like partimage or Ghost. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list