Crayon Shin Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> "What supports what" is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For >> example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these >> years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device >> backup if you like. This is your basic choice in backup - device or >> fs. Me personally, dd_rescue - far better than raw dd. > > The advantage of something like partimage, which knows about the > filesystem being backed up, is that it can back up only the used portions > of the fs.
Yes, it can. But you achieve the same (only used stuff is backed up) with a simpler tool like "tar" as well. > So eg if you're backing up a 20GB partition of which only 1GB > is in use, then using partimage it will be very quick and the resulting > image very small. Then the tar file will also be just 1GB. I really don't see the benefit in using things like partimage or Ghost. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
