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I have 2 different distributions all the time, the main one is always gentoo |
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with bleeding edge software, the other one these last times is usually |
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debian. Once a month I boot my PC with the system rescue Live CD and backup |
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my gentoo partition with partimage. The software has an easy to follow |
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interfase, you can create a compressed file with all the contents of the |
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partition, a .bz2 file is the best but it is too slow for me, so I go for |
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the .tar.gz file. Partimage only compresses the used space of the partition |
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which is really cool, you can have a 30Gb gentoo system but if you are using |
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only 2Gb the final file can easily be of about 1Gb. Then, I store the backup |
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file twice, inside a second disk in my pc and burned in a DVDRW. |
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If you need to recover from the file you only have to use partimage again and |
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have a destination partition of the same size of the original. If the new |
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partition is smaller the program will complain, if it is bigger the exceeding |
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size will be lost. I have erased completely a disk, created partitions again |
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and used partimage without any problem. It can even back up w2k! |
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One small problem with the livecd is that it doesn't load the modules for my |
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usb keyboard on load, each time i have to swap to a ps2 keyboard to do this |
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process. |
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Good luck. |
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System Rescue CD: |
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http://www.sysresccd.org/ |
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Partimage (included in the CD): |
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http://www.partimage.org/ |
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Hector Pizarro |
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Amauta Technologies |
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