Re: [gentoo-amd64] partimage won't run on AMD64

[Herbert Laubner]

Am Sonntag, 11. November 2007 14:31:46 schrieb Beso:
> there's no other way to do it for what i know since partimage won't run on
> 64bits.
> there's another option:
>
> if you need a / backup take a disk (also an usb one) go to a shell and then
> do a cp -a / /mnt/disk (assuming that the disk is mounted into /mnt/disk)
> and after some time which depends on the stuff installed you'll have a
> mirror version of / on the other disk. if you want it to be compressed,
> then do a tar on the mounted disk and you'll have a compressed image of
> your / partition.
> then when you want to to copy it from the backup disk to the running disk
> do again: cp -a and you'll have the / running as it was when you made the
> backup. if you experience problems with running x then do
> chmod 777 /home -R && chmod 777 /tmp -r && chmod 777
> /var/tmp/kdecache-[your username] and then x would run again. the problem
> is that sometimes when doing the cp -a you can experience problems with the
> permissions on these directories when not using root.
>
Will I get this way also the mbr and the file alloction table correct copied?
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