Rob,<div><br></div><div>No it doesn't. However there is a switch to only get the current mount point (eg if /var/log is a seperate partition and you tar /var it gets everthing by /var/log)</div><div><br></div><div>You have to build your destination mount hierachry under /mnt/something on the live cd destionation system.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Robert Wilkens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robwilkens@gmail.com">robwilkens@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Just wondering, will tar get the partition tables? I thought it
was just a file archiver, but I'm not an expert by any stretch of the
imagination..</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:lilug-bounces@lilug.org" target="_blank">lilug-bounces@lilug.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:lilug-bounces@lilug.org" target="_blank">lilug-bounces@lilug.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Justin
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software</span></p>
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<p>Just use "tar -cjvvf - /" and redirect the output
through ssh. I've done it through knoppix. I've even cloned linux installs this
way, by making the other end of the ssh tunnel read a "tar-xjvvf -
/mnt/newparts"</p>
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<p>Of course I had to setup and mount partitions first and run
lilo afterwards.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">systemrescuecd or knoppix will
work jsut fine, but really you need tar, ssh and a network.</p>
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<p>On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Will <<a href="mailto:will@psychdesigns.net" target="_blank">will@psychdesigns.net</a>> wrote:</p>
<p>So, I'm looking to back up a 1TB drive to a computer
somewhere on my<br>
network. I don't have too many files on the device itself, but I want to<br>
back up the partition tables still so I can just restore the device back to<br>
before I backed it up. I don't have another 1TB drive, so I was wondering<br>
if there was any LiveCDs that would be able to compress it, or are just<br>
efficient.<br>
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Has anyone had success with any particular liveCD in the past?<br>
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