User Sebastiaan wrote::
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Robert S wrote:[...] Is there a way of doing this (preferably remotely) without unmounting the filesystem (like the new version of Norton Ghost is able to do in Windows)?I would write an image from the partitions. If you have no 'spare' disks in the computer, or only one partition you have to mount a remote drive directly, like USB, Samba, or similar. A backup is easily done with dd, for example: dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=1M | gzip -c9 > /media/usbdrive/sda1.bin.gz
Or you can use partimage (google for that name) in order to create/restore images of your partitions.
Greets -- Mateusz Łoskot, mateusz (at) loskot (dot) net Registered Linux User #220771, Debian (Sarge)