Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Fri, 05 May 2017, Sergei G wrote: > > I am not convinced that rsync can handle all device type files, all types > > of links and other attributes I don't even know about. I am not convinced > > that anyone actually restored file system using rsync. Does it really work? > > Yes, it does. Been there, done that. But it takes a lot of command > line options, just a plain "rsync source/ dest/" usually won't be > enough. > > The caveats about quiescing anything that might modify data while rsync > is running do apply. >
Also be advised if "dest/" is a FAT formatted SD card, there is a file size limit of 4GB, (and the -aAXv argument to rsync(1) may not be viable to restore the permission/ACL of files/directories.) If "dest/" is archival, (i.e., must be recoverable for a long period of time,) saving the MD5/SHA* hash values of files in "source/" is advisable for verification that a file is not corrupt sometime in the future. John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/