Ok, now that that's clear as mud ;-)
anyone care for a piece of Mississippi Mud ;-)
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Tom Davies 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.
>>
>
> kind of like with LO....
>
> anyway, there are Windows versions.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> in my experience Windows7 puts some kind of 'metadata' file at some exact
> location in the middle or towards the end of the 'boot' partition; it
> screws up if it doesn't find it exactly where it expects it. thus one has
> to be cautious about resizing a Windows partition with non-Windows software.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> it's easier just to google it (I always forget the syntax); lot of useful
> pages but perhaps this is a start <http://wiki.eeeuser.com/**
> backup_restore <http://wiki.eeeuser.com/backup_restore>>.
>
> the thing about dd is that it is _exact_ so suppose you have 30g on a 100g
> partition; dd will copy all 110g including 'empty' space. this also means
> you cannot restore to a partition that is smaller than 100g.
>
> this is good for that Windows 7 issue since everything is exactly in
> place. I'd be more inclined to shrink that partition using Windows, thus
> avoiding the metadata problem, and then back up, etc.
>
> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>
> F.
>
>
>>> 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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