On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:12:30PM -0600, Munir Nassar wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Florin Iucha wrote:
> 
> > 1. Make that partition xfs
> 
> not really an option,

Why?

>                       i got lucky this time because i was using ext3 and i
> was able to use toms root boot to recover...
> 
> > 2. Make a cron job that xfsdumps it into a file, makes an iso and burns
> >    it at 4:00 am.
> > 3. Put a sticker on you monitor reminding you to put a blank cd in when
> >    you go to bed.
> 
> But this is exactly what i want to do, is there no utility that will do
> this for ext2/3?

dump, but you have to run it on an unmounted fs.

florin

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