Re: Tool to take snapshot of current installation

Unruh wrote:


FIFO, character device.Ie, there are file types which rsync does not
handle
well. Thus what you get is not a complete snapshot of the disk.

I have been using Ghost 4 Linux.
You can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l

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Regards,
ToreS
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