Damir Perisa wrote: > Hi Armando, > > Thursday 13 September 2007, Armando M. Baratti wrote: > | Hi Damir, > | > | Take a look on partimage (http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page). > | [...] > | I've used it many times to backup and restore (without a glitch) > | partitions with varied filesystems (ext3, raiserfs, ntfs). > | > | > | Armando > > sounds very interesting! do we have partimage somewhere in arch? i > think i'm going to test this out a little bit on non-essential > partitions to see, how good it is... it really looks easy and has > great advantages :) > > thanx + greetings, > damir > > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > Hi Damir,
There is a package in AUR (comunity). One important point is that as partimage backups disk blocks you have to have them restored on the same position on the disk. So you can even restore in another disk if you like, but the partition must have the same size and be on the same position (regarding disk records). It may sound more complex than it really is. Usually you'll restore to the same disk and partition, or you could save partitions information to replicate then on a new disk (more info here -> http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Backup-partition-table). There is a short manual with screenshots here (http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Usage). Don't forget the partition being backed up must be *unmounted*. So if you'll do a backup of your root partition you could use a live CD that already has partimage in it (I use Finnix [http://www.finnix.org/] that is a 111MB iso download and dubs like an excellent recovery live CD and boots very fast). Best regards, Armando _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
