I think Richard is running out of backup-related topics on the internet. Nothing left to research :(
This might be a good time to try out some of these "back up methods" you've been researching. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:17 AM Louis Kowolowski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 23, 2019, at 9:07 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 01/05/2019 07:26 AM, Tyrell Jentink wrote: > >> I glanced too quickly at that Montana State page... What I wanted wasn't > >> there. > >> Look at the 'mount' Man page, specifically the section on "The Loop > >> Device": https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount > >> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 05:18 Tyrell Jentink <[email protected] wrote: > >>> [snip] ... This article appears to cover the ins and outs pretty well, > >>> although I just glanced over it... > >>> > >>> http://www.cs.montana.edu/~andrew.hamilton/cs560/VFS/mount.html > >>> > > > > Actually following chains of links from > > http://www.cs.montana.edu/~andrew.hamilton/ is leading in potentially > useful directions. > > > > As to "[Update]", pondering this thread and my tread about "back up > methods" has lead to a preliminary goal re-specification. > > > > Partition images may be overkill. It looks like: > > /home > > /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > a yet undefined subset of /usr > > will actually be more useful. > > > > Thanks all. > > > If Linux supports dump & restore, that might be a viable way to read all > the data per-partition, and then you could restore it all to the same > destination. > > -- > Louis Kowolowski [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Cryptomonkeys: > http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> > > Making life more interesting for people since 1977 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
