dd question

[Dan Lund]

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 at 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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