Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Mark Kirkwood
Date: Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

I wrote:
>
>
> If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular
> /), then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a
> backup image that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump,
> *dumpe2fs* etc or smart tar/dump based tools like Amanda.
Hmm - dunno what I was thinking there - 'dumpe2fs' is completely wrong,
should have written 'dump', sorry!

regards

Mark
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