Re: Partition Image 0.6.0-rc3 with XFS support

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:47 12-9-2001 +0200, François Dupoux wrote:
> HOMEPAGE: http://www.partimage.org/
> DOWNLOAD: http://www.partimage.org/download.php3
> HANDBOOK: http://www.partimage.org/doc/index.html
>
> Partition Image is a Norton Ghost / Drive Image clone for Linux. This uility
> saves partitions in the ext2, reiserfs, ntfs, hpfs, fat16, fat32, jfs, xfs,
> hfs filesystems format to an image file. The image file can be compressed in
> the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and be splitted to be copied on
> multiple removable floppies On problems, the user just have to restore the
> partition from the image file, and all the original data are copied.  A
> boot/root and a bootable CD-Rom disk are now provided to run partition image
> without Linux installed on the hard disk. The new version provides the
> newtork support. Tested under intel i386+ and PowerPC/iMac
>
> The XFS support has just been added in version 0.6.0rc3. It was a little
> tested with small partitions (300 MB), and large ones (15 GB), but we need
> more test to be sure this support is stable.
>
> Interested users can make tests and send us bug reports. Tests on large and
> fragmented partitions are very useful, because the support is more complex.
> You can have details about how to make advanced tests in the handbook.

I am testing it now since my linux partition still needed to be moved off 
my old notebook to my new one. This makes it somewhat easier :-)

Does partimage also take things like ACLs and other Extended Attributes 
into account?

It looks good and it works right too, impressive.
This will make a fast backup solution if some server takes a dump and it 
needs to be restored.

I will test it with a larger filesystem later from a test server which 
holds some large databases.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.