Hi, I was planning on using a linux live CD mounting the ext3 filesystem using it and doing the backup using that. I want something that I can resize the partition then uncompress the backup image into the new root partition so I don't want something that will store filesystem information just archive files preserving permitions. I have the gentoo 2007.0 liveCD that has speakup on it and I was planning to use it for packing and unpacking the backup. Should I still use tar or should I use another tool for this purpose? I want something that is free and open source. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:09 PM Subject: Re: making a backup of my linux filesystem with tar and bz2 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I don't usually reply to my posts, but I forgot to mention that if you > want to use tar, but not have it archive file systems other than the / > directory, just umount those file systems before starting the tar job. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 08:06:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> Provided that doing the backup while not booted into the system you >> want to back up isn't an issue for you, I'd say partition image fits >> all the criteria you specified nicely. http://www.partimage.org >> >> Greg >> >> > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAklcM+oACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDvGACfbIcyvT40WWswaD2JC3A7SOTE > TSsAoM71tVs3IvRaWg2EybSoI30+wOcK > =8vJo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
