Re: Upgrade to Red Hat Linux 9 broke PostgreSQL

Jason Earl <jason.earl@simplot.com>

From: Jason Earl <jason.earl@simplot.com>
To: gearond@cvc.net
Cc: Guy Fraser <guy@incentre.net>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-04-17T21:58:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net> writes:

> At the current moment, I keep a full harddrive backup of the
> harddrives in my box on older machines. What to do with WinXP, i don't
> know yet. In fact, I don't know how to do a drive copy with Linux
> either. something else to learn, I guess.

I have had very good luck with partimage for partition copying under
Linux.  I use it to image Linux and Windows 2000 boxes and it works
great.

http://www.partimage.org/

In a pinch I have been known to use dd as well, but I would recommend
it :).

Jason