On Fri, 05 May 2017, Sergei G wrote: > I am not convinced that rsync can handle all device type files, all types > of links and other attributes I don't even know about. I am not convinced > that anyone actually restored file system using rsync. Does it really work?
Yes, it does. Been there, done that. But it takes a lot of command line options, just a plain "rsync source/ dest/" usually won't be enough. The caveats about quiescing anything that might modify data while rsync is running do apply. -- Henrique Holschuh
