On 23 Dec 2011 at 18:51, Michael Hennebry wrote: Date sent: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:51:47 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [ABANDONING:] Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, g wrote: > > > making images is a very un-assuring way of making backups because > > there is no _easy way_ of verifying. > > If the image fits into a single device, > each partition can be mounted without special tools. > Correctness can be verified with diff --recursive . > My cable modem was down for about 1 1/2 days, so I'm going thru over 500 message.. Not clear on the no easy way of verifying message. With my g4l project I've found that compressed images of disks or partitions can easily be checked using the compression tools built in testing tools. After creating images, I run the lzop -t image.lzo and if it comes back with OK, then I've never had a problem. I once had a corrupted image file, but it failed the test, and turned out to be a bad ram stick in the machine, and once replaced it has worked fine for years. Having an untested backup of any type is not a good ideal. Many users never check there backups just assuming that will work. I generally wipe a disk in front of the students to show them how quickly it can be restore if one has a good backup versus having to rebuild a machine from scratch plus all the data that may no longer exist anywhere.. > -- > Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, > whom I teach not to run with scissors, > that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have > a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 11602395.000036 | EINSTEIN 7036663.689851 ROSETTA 4067211.641558 | ABC 9981350.455778 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
