On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 16:20 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > I want to compress my whole [/] system to burn on to a dvd-r dl,my sys > is about 10.5GB,what is the best way to achieve this when my sys is > 'live' and constantly changes. Give Mondo a try (http://www.mondorescue.org/), it is excellent. The only way to cleanly cope with live filesystems is taking a snapshot and backing it up. This requires you to use LVM and have enough disk space to store the diffs while the backup is running. Cheers Steffen.
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