On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:31:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > it's a live CD, and that's the only safe way to do a whole disk
> > backup.  
> 
> Well, no. I have a small rescue partition on each of my Gentoo boxes,
> not necessarily on the physical disk to be backed up. Quite useful from
> time to time, such as when doing backups.
That's the same thing really,booting from a separate device. A USB
stick would do as well, as would a network boot.


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Neil Bothwick

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