SystemRescueCD is an iso you download and burn a CD. It is gentoo based
and you boot it like a live CD. You boot the CD on a system and then run
partimage to backup to a partimage server. Some things I found that were
a hassle.
I run partimage server on a Gentoo system and back up other boxes such as
my Windows boxes to the Gentoo system.
The RescueCD offers partimage and partimagessl for the programs. I had to
run partimagessh -L on the system I was backing up and I had to compile
the Gentoo partimage to NOT use passwords. I wanted to use passwords but
evidently the RescueCD is compiled to not use them so I had to change my
Gentoo compile to not use passwords. I tried to get the users file
working and partimage still would not authenticate.
If you are backing up NTFS filesystems use the default size for the images
or it won't produce a readable image.
I filed a bug on this but evidently it's an upstream problem and I need to
bug it there, too.
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:
I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but
SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't.
a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running?
b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo
install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems)
Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!
John D
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From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's next
On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote:
I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out!
It's too flaky at the moment.
I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a
desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a
bork (either from software or operator error)
Personally, I prefer to backup at the partition level. Partimage works quite
well for me.
http://www.partimage.org/
I boot with SystemRescueCd (has partimage built in) to backup and/or
restore
my partions.
http://www.sysresccd.org/
-jm
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