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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org