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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 24 December 2006 13:12, Dale wrote: |
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>> OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I |
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>> guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. This slow dial-up sucks. |
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>> :-( |
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> For complete partition/disk/OS backups I have used partimage. No doubt it |
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> comes with many recovery LiveCDs, but I have only used it with Knoppix. As |
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> the package name implies it creates image files. You'll need a swap |
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> partition activated though, otherwise you may run out of memory when you are |
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> burning the DVD/CD with your images. Partimage has compression options to |
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> reduce the size of the backed up image file and you can define the size at |
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> which you want to image files split so as to fit on a number of CDs or DVDs. |
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> If you want to access particular files/directories within the image file I |
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> guess you will need to mount it using loopback, but I haven't tried that yet. |
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> HTH. |
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Another one to consider. Will look into it too. |
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Thanks |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |