Until you get responses from people who actually know what they are talking about. ?1 what is the file system on the usb drive. Fat32 cannot preserve owner/group or their permissions. ?2 preserving hard links end-to-end a3 rsync will use whatever targets are currently existing and their underlying file systems.
-----Original Message----- From: rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Robert Holtzman Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:51 PM To: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: restoring system I have restored my home directory in the past using rsync but never the entire system. If I rsync / (on my usb drive containing the backup) to / on the computer with a fresh install of the OS, what problems will I run into? What about links? I am presently triple booting 3 linux distros and want to delete one to install something else. The distro I'm installing will be on 3 partitions (/, /boot, and /home). Will what I'm proposing populate the directories in these partitions or will it dump everything into /? I realize that I probably be better off creating a snapshot and restoring from that but I have never had good luck with MondoRescue or Clonezilla. Thought I'd better ask now before I stuck my foot in it. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer" -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
