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Re: [cobalt-users] Cloning the Hard drive in a RaQ4
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Cloning the Hard drive in a RaQ4
- From: Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Mar 2 12:21:01 2004
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:10 am, Dmitry Alexeyev wrote:
> Partimage works only with filesystems (partitions), it doesn't touch
> partition table in any ways. So, if you want to backup your /home
> partition, you back up /dev/hda4, and if it broke, you restore
> /dev/hda4 from dump.
Thanks for all your helpful information, Dmitri.
What we're looking for is an open-source solution to replace ghost; it
looks as if the combination of Partition Image and parted might do that
for us.
Jeff
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