Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 December 2006 13:12, Dale wrote: > > >> OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I >> guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. This slow dial-up sucks. >> :-( >> > > For complete partition/disk/OS backups I have used partimage. No doubt it > comes with many recovery LiveCDs, but I have only used it with Knoppix. As > the package name implies it creates image files. You'll need a swap > partition activated though, otherwise you may run out of memory when you are > burning the DVD/CD with your images. Partimage has compression options to > reduce the size of the backed up image file and you can define the size at > which you want to image files split so as to fit on a number of CDs or DVDs. > > If you want to access particular files/directories within the image file I > guess you will need to mount it using loopback, but I haven't tried that yet. > > HTH. >
Another one to consider. Will look into it too. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-)
