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On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:31:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > it's a live CD, and that's the only safe way to do a whole disk |
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> > backup. |
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> Well, no. I have a small rescue partition on each of my Gentoo boxes, |
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> not necessarily on the physical disk to be backed up. Quite useful from |
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> time to time, such as when doing backups. |
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That's the same thing really,booting from a separate device. A USB |
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stick would do as well, as would a network boot. |
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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. |
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