I wouldn't bother. When was the last time you had a Linux system poop on itself and die?
If you must, here is my suggestion: Install your main OS (say in sda1). Have a swap partition (say in sda2). Make a rescue partition (say in sda3) of about 6G. Boot with knoppix and copy everything from sda1 to sda3. Fix /etc/fstab (on sda3), grub (on sda1), and maybe some other issues so that you can boot to sda1 by default or select the sda3 "rescue" partition. Boot to sda3, be root and and make a shadow of everything from sda1 to sda3, maybe with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rsync -av /media/sda1 . This would allow you to make more rsync with snapshot backups if you have enough space in sda3. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ has a good writeup of rsync with snapshots. Note that you probably don't want to do the grand rsync from sda1 when you are booted from sda1, because you'll get a lot of funny stuff from /proc and /var. George -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
