On 2010/01/02 20:47 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
Brian K. White wrote:
Bob S wrote:
I did a dd backup on my 11.2. Question is can I update it with rsync, or more important could I restore certain files/directories using rsync?
_what_ did you backup with dd? a filesystem? or a partition or whole drive that might have more than one filesystem?
Thanks for your reply. I backed up one filesystem, oS 11.2 consisting of four partitions.
To me the primary meaning of filesystem, absent an immediate modifier, is what results from executing a format or mkfs command, which, in the absence of LVM and/or RAID, applies to one single HD partition. IOW, "root filesystem" and "filesystem" do not necessarily mean the same thing. A root filesystem can contain much more than mounted HD partitions, including ramdisks, unpartitioned media, remote shares, and a whole bunch of strange objects in /dev. I would likely never consider using dd to "backup" /, which is what your response to Brian seems to say is what you did. -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org