making a backup of my linux filesystem with tar and bz2

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I was planning on using a linux live CD mounting the ext3 filesystem 
using it and doing the backup using that.  I want something that I can 
resize the partition then uncompress the backup image into the new root 
partition so I don't want something that will store filesystem information 
just archive files preserving permitions.  I have the gentoo 2007.0 liveCD 
that has speakup on it and I was planning to use it for packing and 
unpacking the backup.  Should I still use tar or should I use another tool 
for this purpose?  I want something that is free and open source.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: making a backup of my linux filesystem with tar and bz2


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> I don't usually reply to my posts, but I forgot to mention that if you
> want to use tar, but not have it archive file systems other than the /
> directory, just umount those file systems before starting the tar job.
>
> Greg
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> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 08:06:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> Provided that doing the backup while not booted into the system you
>> want to back up isn't an issue for you, I'd say partition image fits
>> all the criteria you specified nicely. http://www.partimage.org
>>
>> Greg
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