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On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 |
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"Ritesh Kumar" <ritesh@××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > > Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to |
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> > > recover my system without |
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> > > reinstalling from scratch? |
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> > I've had success with #dd if=<partition-to-be-copied> |
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> > of=<partition-to-be-copied-to> bs=<varies> |
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> Is there a reason why you backup the filesystem along with the data |
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> on it? I do only minor backups... but even for anything major I would |
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> use a tool like tar or rsync and drop the filesystem metadata |
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> entirely. |
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> Also directly reading from the block device is hazardous unless you |
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> umount (or mount as readonly) the filesystem in question. This is |
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> because, the filesystem may not keep all the data synced to the disk |
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> at all points in time. |
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not that i'd recommend it for production systems, but you could mount |
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with the 'sync' option to help with this. |
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