full backup remotely?

[Yuval Hager]

On Thursday 31 December 2009, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi Tom, Sammy
> 
> Both CloneZilla and Partimage require that I unmount the partition before
> doing the backup. dd is nice, but that will copy also the empty space
> (although it won't have impact on the size of the backup, it will have an
> impact on the time it takes). I need something like Partimage, but
>  without unmounting the partitions.

IIRC you have to choose - 
unmount and partition backup
or
keep mounted and backup the files.

You can't keep the mount and use dd or similar.

--y

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