On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. 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. -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
