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 1M6TSd-0004Jp-E6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:50:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9260E02E3; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A75AE02E3 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so4887376ewy.34 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 10:50:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fujHy87u6Rd3+8Otl0e2Mc6Gc+sHoK3DzqI4BUol0dM=; b=ev7sSc43+VPIcIAkXCpeteXE2tGCioaJ1V48AIbKMw/iH6gT917McHOa+lmqCdTvbC JrxckdP7CuIM6jZ1C2y2+MvFrKoomcfLkkG6WUiblvoRf23VZfJNkxAcrui2EejiKQsG YOTq8wIp7og8o8Sj1N/U/QPwtRySJ3xgrv+JU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IyDhikPPgeXAK7n9PzndqVCBIwqYqn11jkMf/e7rdOQmzcbLVxScDvBWlLggn4kuYl QmSFBPsUL88EsN/DkI8Dt9G7b/zyWnKu4WmdI3dKdRBTY9SL27//w8G1/NbIeHbVe/Tj QDGvu4/27kEYgt44+sU+Udjf8RdYMa47rOZ2w= Received: by 10.210.113.16 with SMTP id l16mr391994ebc.90.1242755439988; Tue, 19 May 2009 10:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.20? (62-47-30-122.adsl.highway.telekom.at [62.47.30.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm384228eyg.7.2009.05.19.10.50.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 19 May 2009 10:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A12F183.4010905@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:59 +0200 From: Jarry User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool... References: <4A12E55A.3020001@gmail.com> <200905191908.36078.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> In-Reply-To: <200905191908.36078.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0d27bc70-5f7a-4e45-a3a0-18aa2fb0ca10 X-Archives-Hash: fac0484193187ae87e25972f70d96649 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> is there some software for "live" partition backup/copying/cloning >> with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton >> Ghost or O&O DiskImage in windows-world? > > What's wrong with dd? Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software: 1. backup of partition in use (sync disk, snapshot of partition) 2. "smart" copying (only sectors with data) 3. automatic partition recovery (including partition-table) Jarry -- _______________________________________________________________ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.