+++ David [gentoo-user] [Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0200]:
> What kind of issues? The idea is to copy the whole filesystem to another disk
> and keep it sync. And in case of "crisis" use dd from the backup to the
> original disk.
I should note I'm assuming you're backing up a mounted filesystem. If not
then there's nothing wrong with dd.

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