| Evolution | GeneralIdler: no. it was a misconfiguration. it's since been resolved. |
| GeneralIdler | ok cool! |
| range | GeneralIdler: Plus idiocy of a user. |
| Evolution | yeah. that guy's pretty much a tool. |
| GeneralIdler | just saw my copy of that bug report .. thought i'd let you folks know |
| Evolution | GeneralIdler: we didn't really expect a user to be that level of flaming idiot when it came to filing bugs and providing information. |
| range | GeneralIdler: Thanks for telling here and not adding to that bug monitored by all users :) |
| Evolution | meh. I still vote nuke the bug and the user. but I think I know the guy's solution. |
| GeneralIdler | it should probably be locked or something |
| evil_steve | Eliran_Itzhak: try it with tar -cfz |
| range | Evolution: Down, not across? |
| Evolution | hehehe |
| action | Evolution goes to work. bbiaf |
| Evolution | goes to work. bbiaf |
| range | Eliran_Itzhak: Just drop the idea of using an *ARCHIVER* for just one file and gzip it. |
| Eliran_Itzhak | range, like that ? "cat /dev/hdc | gzip > mybackup.gz" |
| action | longword nominates Eliran for this week's Useless Use of cat award |
| longword | nominates Eliran for this week's Useless Use of cat award |
| Eliran_Itzhak | range, and later gunzip mybackup.gz > /dev/hdc ? |
| bobn_ | are you really after a disk image Eliran_Itzhak ? |
| Eliran_Itzhak | bobn_, Yep, I;m going to replace my HD, and want to have a backup on my second disk. Any ideas on how to do it better ? I though about using dd or cat on the (soon to fail) hd. |
| range | Eliran_Itzhak: I told you somewhere above. |
| bobn_ | not actually, except I think there are tools for that. |
| range | dd | gzip | dd (though the latter is not needed. ) |
| GeneralIdler | Eliran_Itzhak there is a tool that backsup partitions it only pulls out the valid inodes.. and leaves the deleted ones behind that'll give you the most compact backup |
| bobn_ | http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l |
| GeneralIdler | I usually rsync the data ot the new disk and then install grub and boot off it |
| longword | dd would be the preferred tool if a disk is failing - keeps the disk accesses/seeks to a minimum |
| action | GeneralIdler agrees |
| GeneralIdler | agrees |
| range | Or dd_rescue if you already have problems reading blocks. |
| bobn_ | I think last time I tried something like dd if=/dev/hdc - it didn't pick up contents of the extended partitions. But this is from memory and it's been a long time. actually iwas trying something like dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc - disk cloning cause i was afraid to go RAID1 in my early linux days. |
| RedStalker_Mike | range, does this kernel (PAE) support more than 4 Gb of RAM? |
| Chipdancer | RedStalker_Mike: up to 64G |
| linux_probe | oh joy at PAE |
| fifo_ | heh |