Andreas Micklei wrote:
> Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Rich Rauenzahn:
>   
>> Some of you running dd might want to consider "dump"
>> On the other hand...
>> http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html
>> Although some of the arguments apply to dd as well.
>>     
>
> I have been doing that for about two years now. Works great! It's just like 
> dd, only faster and more space efficient. However you can only dump 
> partitions, not the whole disk, so I also save the output of fdisk -l, so I 
> can recreate the partition table in case of disaster. Booting a live cd and 
> using restore is quite easy if I need to.
>
>
>   
Since I heavily use lvol, I instead store a vgdisplay -v along with bdf 
and mount output.

Rich


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