Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Andrew MacKenzie <amackenz@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:41:41
Message-Id: 20080506224136.GD32313@edespot.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system by David
1 +++ David [gentoo-user] [Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0200]:
2 > What kind of issues? The idea is to copy the whole filesystem to another disk
3 > and keep it sync. And in case of "crisis" use dd from the backup to the
4 > original disk.
5 I should note I'm assuming you're backing up a mounted filesystem. If not
6 then there's nothing wrong with dd.
7
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