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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