[plug] Backimg up entire drive

[Craig Ringer]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I'd be inclined to use partimage instead of dd, though - it has a nice
> windowy interface for those who like that sort of thing, understands
> some filesystems enough to skip unused blocks, and has optional
> compression too.  It only does one partition at a time though.

It's also not on most rescue disks, and AFAIK you can't loopback mount 
images created by partimage. I generally use 'dd | gzip' but partimage 
definitely has it's place.

Craig Ringer