On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:14:54AM -0400, luke wrote: > > One potential problem with dd, is that there is no integrity checking. I > > don't know if there is with partimage either, but with multiple gig > > drives, you may run into circumstances where that would be a good thing to > > have. > > There's no integrity checking in partimage, at least in the sense I > think you're referring to. However, you could restore the backup with I'm thinking of something like rsync's verification of transacted data routines. When storing huge amounts of data, I wouldn't like to be without those, even though on a healthy drive the odds are rather slim that it would ever actually be necessary. Luke
