On 09:43 Thu 13 Mar , "Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski" wrote: > You should stop using rsync. Why? I've think like You couple days ago. > Rsync is good but, when i record DVD with backup files of OS and try to > restore by rsync then I started to waiting for files counting... and > waiting... and waiting. So I use "tar -cjvpf <arch> <dir> --exclude=/dev > --exclude=/proc --exclude=/root --exclude=/usr/portage/distfiles" and > backup work's perfect. You can use ISOMASTER to edit ISO of minimal livecd > of gentoo and add archive to that file, rebuild iso and write it on DVD - > it works fine. Now restoring to full functional Gentoo needs 3 minutes of > data decompresion to disk (tar -xjvpf) faster is without verbose mode. Next > step is chroot <mount dir> /usr/sbin/lilo (after mounting proc) and reboot > ;). This is faster :D > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
The rsync backup is just to an external hard drive, and not to a DVD. I'm going to make an archive (maybe with dar, maybe with tar) to burn to DVD so that I have something to restore from if everything goes kaput on me. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
