On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:28, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardare is unchanged). I wasn't sure if there was a way to do > this with dd because of the smaller drive on the restore. Initially, I > used 'rsync -avH --delete --no-numeric-ids src server:dst' to send > everything to another server and back. The number of files (including > links, etc.) seemed to check out, but disk usage (using 'du -cs /') was > different before and after (block size on the filesystem was the same as > before). Plus I was not sure if extended attributes were transfered > with the files.
You might want to consider mondo or partimage for this task. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
