dd greps the grub ;-)
and just as I thought it was safe to go back in the water ;-)
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi :)
> If rsync is available on Windows then it might not be so easy to charge
> people so much for apps that do back-ups. Unless no-one knew about it of
> course.
>
> I tried a back-up utility that looked great until i used it to restore a
> bootable Windows and found the Windows boot-loader was completely lost
> because things were not in exactly the right place. Someone suggested
> using dd but to grep it through some archiving tool. I did fix the Windows
> restored drive but by installing Grub2. Grub2 survived the back-up and
> restore process but it felt like i was cheating because the whole purpose
> was to restore the machine to exactly the way it arrived from the store.
>
> I'm going to ask about grepping a dd through an archiving tool on
> http://www.linuxquestions.org
> to see if they can give me a good idea of how to actually write the
> command.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> >
> > From: Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu>
> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> >Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 19:23
> >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...
> >
> >On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
> >
> >> rsync ???
> >>
> >> I think i are sinking fast ...
> >>
> >> sink vb sinks, sinking, sank ; sunk, sunken
> >
> >you are probably just joshing around but 'sync' has nothing to do with
> 'sink'; one is germanic, the other is greek.
> >
> >'syn'+'chronos' as in 'synchronize'.
> >
> >sometimes the spelling of words, like the syntax of directory paths,
> matters.
> >
> >(and 'syntax' has nothing to do with 'sin' or 'taxes'!)
> >
> >'rsync' is a great utility; I assume it's available for Windows but I
> don't know but there's certainly equivalent stuff.
> >
> >F.
> >
>
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