Best way to go in that respect is to create another partition, boot to
a livecd, mount both on their own mountpoints and run "tar -cvpSf -
/mnt/source_mountpoint | tar -xvpSf - -C /mnt/destination_mountpoint".
Then go into grub, and create a boot entry for the kernel on the other
partition.


On 1/12/07, jordi laforge <laforge.jordi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, this is good to know. My goal is to have a spare os on a drive at
> all times. For as little downtime as possible.
>
> JL
>
>
>
> On 1/12/07, Dan Lund <situationalawareness@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'd definitely agree.
> > If you want to do a backup of a live filesystem, my advice is to use
> > tar or rsync.
> > dd is just too low-level to use on a filesystem that is in flux.
> >
> > On 1/12/07, Eric Shubes < plug@shubes.net> wrote:
> > > jordi laforge wrote:
> >
> > > You can back it up, it's just that restoring might be an issue. ;)
> > > Seriously, dd should only be used on unmounted partitions.
> > >
> > > --
> > > -Eric 'shubes'
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