[Gllug] Bootable USB backup like OS X dmg?

[gvim]

On 26/05/2011 10:01, James Hawtin wrote:
> gvim wrote:
>>
>> Fine, but can you take your partitions out with you on an external
>> disk and run the system from them via USB on a laptop out in the
>> park? Not a backup/rescue but a complete bootable clone - and
>> smart-updatable.
>
> Clearly I don't quite understand the feature you most desire. A linux
> distro can be installed to USB should you wish, just like OSX can be.
> Like with all OSes its the tweeks on them that makes it home that is
> so important. For me being able to recreate a system that is lost is
> the important thing, rather than having it on external storage. With
> OSX is the external USB copy replicated on to the internal drive?
>
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Yes, you can boot into the external USB system and clone it back to a clean HD on the host. It's very flexible. Just wondered, since it's a UNIX system, why it's that difficult on Linux but point taken.

gvim
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