Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 9:45 AM:

> The problem can be circumvented by taking an image backup
> instead of a logical backup, but that gets into special backup
> requirements.

Can you mix and match?  Does the image backup grab the entire disk or does it
work at the partition level?  Can you, say, do an image backup of the MBR and
boot sector and the /boot partition, and then use file backup on the rest of
the disk.

What backup software are you using that can take an image backup of a Linux
boot disk?  Does it install a local agent for this?  Or are you booting from
SAN?  If so, you should have all kinds of backup flexibility, depending on
whose storage arrays you use.

-- 
Stan