Hello SuSE people
Just got me a new WD Passport external USB haard drive. (present from my great kids) Planning on using it for backups of my several OS's.
Blew away the Windoze stuff and reformatted it into 4 ext3 primary partitions. (250GB - actually 232GB) Good move? Bad move?
Now the question: If I do an rsync backup of the whole OS onto one of these new partitions, (10.3 for example) will rsync preserve everything? Like partitions and folders etc,? Never used rsync before.
If so, could I blow away the original OS and restore it completely to a working condition?
Any good how-tos on rsync? Sorry about my ignorance.
Bob S
Hi bob, Yes moving to ext3 is a good choice if you are using linux. Rsync is a great tool for backup of data file's it has facilities no other program has. Restoring completer dirs or a single file is simple. But !!! It is not the right tool to save a systempartition of a running system, rsync does not copy open files (just try it and look in the logfile). To save an operating system I always boot my system from cd (knoppix) and use partimage. To save your OS, booting from something else is the only way to have all files closed, and that is essential to have correct copy. You should do it this way, 1 Boot cd for command line (init 2) (knoppix 2) 2 mkdir /backup 3 mount -w -t ext3 /dev/sda(x) /backup 4 cd /backup 5 partimage And then follow the menu. So far as I know there is no imagebackuptool like partimage in the suse environment. Succes, hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org