<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>How about other filesystems such as ext4, jfs, and xfs?<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Akira <public@raideen.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Chris.Knadle@coredump.us; LILUG Mailing List <lilug@lilug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:34:27 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software<br></font><br>
Chris Knadle wrote:<br>> Personally I think backing up a "cloned image" that contains everything including the partition table is a mistake. Why? Well, let's say you want to get files back. Oops -- now you have to restore both the partition table and the ENTIRE image. :-/ That's a pain in the butt.<br>> <br>> There are cases where cloned images make sense -- like putting cloned images of the OS on computers in the workplace. But I think they're a mistake for backups because they don't allow you random access.<br><br>Norton Ghost Enterprise (now Ghost Solution Suite) has allowed access to individual files for some time now. The newer (the past 4 years or so) consumer versions of Ghost also allow you to browse the backups to restore individual files. I'm not sure if that functionality is available for ext2/ext3 partitions (which are supported by Ghost).<br><br>Even without the ability to do granular restores, it
can be useful to have a base image so that you can very quickly restore to a point where all you need to do is restore the data from your latest backup.<br><br>--Akira<br>_______________________________________________<br>Lilug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Lilug@lilug.org" href="mailto:Lilug@lilug.org">Lilug@lilug.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.lilug.org/listinfo.cgi/lilug-lilug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lilug.org/listinfo.cgi/lilug-lilug.org</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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