[aklug] Re: Backing up an entire drive

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

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> Hey guys... I'm considering making an experimental change to one of my
> Gentoo systems (ripping out and replacing the default rc system with
> openrc). I wanted to back up my entire drive so that in the likely event
> that I render my system non-bootable and in pieces, I can just restore
> everything from a file/image. I've never had to back up an entire drive
> before because in the past I was simply concerned about certain
> irreplaceable data, but in this case I've got a whole dm-crypt + lvm
> disk configuration I want to preserve in a pristine state.
>
> I would appreciate any fatherly guidance about the best way to approach
> this for easy one-time backup and quick restoration (if necessary).

You could try g4l....that worked for me in a recent trial. It took a =20
little longer than it probably should of because it included the =20
ENTIRE drive, free blocks and all, but it worked like you'd expect it =20
to.

Good luck and report back what you end up doing.

Mike B.

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Received on Thu Nov 12 16:52:19 2009