>>>>> "Chester" == Chester R Hosey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Chester> As far as backing up a partition and restoring that backup, use
Chester> tar. GNU tar (which is almost certainly the default on
Chester> GNU/Linux systems) is quite full-featured and should be able to
Chester> serve your needs.

This should probably be obvious to anyone using encryption, but just in
case...
  If you back up using tar, don't store the tar file unencrypted.

Also, you should be encrypting your swap file, or else bits of your data
could end up there unencrypted.

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