Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:37:05 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > > rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you > aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and > inode numbers. The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in time > only. If yo

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Mike Cloaked
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Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:25 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: > > rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you > > aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and > > inode numbers. The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Robert Nichols wrote: > rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you > aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and > inode numbers. The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in time > only. If you want multiple backup levels you have to have

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:37:05 -0600 Robert Nichols wrote: > If you want multiple backup levels you have to have storage for > several complete mirrors. Depends on how picky you are about the structure of said backups. I use the delete option to move the changed files to a deleted directory rather

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-24 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/24/2010 08:18 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear fellow Fedora users& list members, > > On the kmail thread, sarcasm included :), I noticed the references to rsync > and partimage respectively. Both are recommended to make backups in order to > prevent from BAD UPDATES to render your mach

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-24 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 22:18:19 Antonio Olivares wrote: > I have a copy of SystemRescueCD, GpartedLiveCD, in case either of the two > are handy in this situation. I have run rawhide and have been lucky to > get back up from those BAD UPDATES once in a while and the test list is > very ge

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-24 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
I don't have any command line examples to give you, but I once used PartImage and GParted to successfully migrate a three disk RAID 0 NTFS filesystem on a Windows Small Business Server 2003 to a RAID 5. My friend set up the RAID 0 in eager anticipation of blazingly fast storage I/O, only later to

rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-24 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear fellow Fedora users & list members, On the kmail thread, sarcasm included :), I noticed the references to rsync and partimage respectively. Both are recommended to make backups in order to prevent from BAD UPDATES to render your machine/working programs to a halt :(, and get back up easil