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> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:48, Jamie wrote: |
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>> <snip> |
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>> > That's what a backup image, a snapshot of the system taken |
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>> periodically |
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>> > when everything is known to be working, is useful for. =8^) |
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>> <snip> |
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>> A good piece of advice and one that I really should follow. |
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>> What is the best way to take an image of the Gentoo install? |
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>> In my case my Gentoo install resides on /dev/hda2 (boot) ; /dev/hda3 |
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>> (swap) and /dev/hda5 (root) - is it possible to use something like dd to |
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>> image these partitions to a disk somewhere else on my network? Is this a |
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>> good/bad/non-workable idea? |
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> get a tape drive (dlt is great), tar you system onto the tape drive. |
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> If something happens, boot a livecd, and untar from the tape into the |
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> partitions.... |
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A great idea, but a DLT tape drive is well over $1000 here in New Zealand, |
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and every tape drive I have seen is far more expensive than disk. |
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My ideal solution would be to somehow back up to a drive on another |
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machine on the network (assuming that is possible). |
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