I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all other hardare is unchanged). I wasn't sure if there was a way to do this with dd because of the smaller drive on the restore. Initially, I used 'rsync -avH --delete --no-numeric-ids src server:dst' to send everything to another server and back. The number of files (including links, etc.) seemed to check out, but disk usage (using 'du -cs /') was different before and after (block size on the filesystem was the same as before). Plus I was not sure if extended attributes were transfered with the files.
Anyone know if the extended attributes are transferred with rsync or why the disk usage is not the same? Any suggestions on a better way to do this? I'd like to avoid re-installing and reconfiguring again. Regards, Casey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
