From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: making a backup of my linux filesystem with tar and bz2
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:09:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090101030931.GB11134@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090101030613.GA11134@localhost.localdomain>
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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
>
>
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