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 1JVgAJ-0005f7-83 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:51:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 889D2E0775; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 04:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp5.clear.net.nz (smtp5.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.68]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400D8E0775 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 04:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmori.markir.net (121-72-69-134.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.69.134]) by smtp5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JX3003PP6T6G420@smtp5.clear.net.nz> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:51:07 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:51:06 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition In-reply-to: <47CA2D41.6030003@paradise.net.nz> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <47CA323A.1080403@paradise.net.nz> 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; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <200802291227.35724.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> <959274.49799.qm@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080301203641.5246b692@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <47CA2D41.6030003@paradise.net.nz> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071203) X-Archives-Salt: 1b90538e-4d10-46c7-92fe-38c0d733cdb6 X-Archives-Hash: 25a1d40ff243e9c93222ee8e94928b77 I wrote: > > > If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular > /), then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a > backup image that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, > *dumpe2fs* etc or smart tar/dump based tools like Amanda. Hmm - dunno what I was thinking there - 'dumpe2fs' is completely wrong, should have written 'dump', sorry! regards Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list