[plug] Backimg up entire drive

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:11:37PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

| 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.

Fair enough.  It's in Knoppix, though, and in this particular case
(where the drive is being backed up to a working Linux system) I don't
think that the lack of ubiquity of partimage is a major problem.  I
agree that not being able to loop mount the images is a disadvantage,
though.

<rant>
BTW, Iinet's mail relay is a pain.  That message took ages to get back
to the list, and there's another one I sent about an hour and a half ago
that /still/ hasn't reached the list.  Sending email directly doesn't
work too well when you're on a dynamic IP either, as half of Iinet's IP
address space seems to be in various spam blacklists for having been an
open relay at one time or another *sigh*
</rant>

Cameron.