'ello, On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 14:00, david howe wrote: > Can I rsync the disk to a remote and then copy back onto the new disk? > Does anyone have any better suggestions?
Yes, I recently used this technique to recover a dead server because it died in the middle of a dd (image) backup :-). You'll need options such as: --verbose --recursive --perms --owner --group --stats --progress --delete --exclude=/proc --one-file-system --sparse --times --devices --links --hard-links --delete-excluded Remember to remake the proc directory in the tree you copy it to (sys as well if you're using 2.6). If you tar up this backup, make sure that you use the correct tar options (man tar helps). Regarding imaging, AFAIK it is very hard to resize partitions afterwards, so you'd be wasting 30GB of space (unless you used fdisk to create a partition in the free space) if you used dd. I am sure there are more capable image programs but this rsync technique does work if done carefully. If you did want to use dd, you could probably use it in conjuction iwth netcat and a FIFO to send out the resultant image over the network to another computer for archival. But I've never attempted such a thing before. Hope this helps, bye just now, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
