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 1JWSE7-0006Uk-HO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:10:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82436E0462; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F3BE0462 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E5F66646 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:10:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.241 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.241 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.084, BAYES_50=0.001, 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 8H7KwGU2IUaG for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:10:10 +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 B716C64F3F for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JWSDq-0007Tk-I4 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:10:02 +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 ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:10:02 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by 62-2-78-98.static.cablecom.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:10:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:07:04 +0100 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?xYI=?= Message-ID: <3352809.cpdGrPTP7V@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> References: <200802291227.35724.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> <20080302134300.GL9879@avlebavle.dk> <47CB3BBF.9040801@paradise.net.nz> <200803031317.30818.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> 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: b1d3290b-8c7d-448c-b832-6731c25bff64 X-Archives-Hash: b93b870daa318a3861af0193f2f00f3c Jonathan Haws wrote: > On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this >> sort of stuff. > > The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Of course :) > Hence I was > using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup the entire drive and > not just a single partition. That enables the quickest recovery of the > entire system in the event of a failure. Depends. If you'd just store tar files, you'd just have to create the filesystem beforehand and then restore the tar files. Won't take much longer than restoring a Ghost image, I'd suppose. > I have looked everywhere I can think of to find a tool that is similar to > Ghost that will backup the entire hard drive to an image that I can put to > DVD, without including free blocks on the disk (I don't want an 80GB image > of > an 80GB drive when only 5GB are in use at the time). That's why I'd rather use tar... An additional benefit is, that tar is *MUCH* simpler than Ghost (or partimage). Because of that, you could use your tar file in many more applications (for example if you want to have a look at what the file was at your last backup). > Does anyone know of > a tool capable of this that runs on Linux and has FULL Linux fs support? partimage. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list