I have a couple of older IDE hard drives and I think the older of the two is getting ready to croak. Because hard drive prices continue to plummet, I can buy a 500G/7200 RPM SATA2 drive (either WD or Seagate) for $50. That more than doubles the current capacities of the current setup.
While I'm at it, I'll change the filesystem type from reiserfs to ext3, and reduce the partitions to 3: swap, /, and /tmp. Dirvish has been working flawlessly for almost a year now and I've actually restored a file or two from the backup, but never a full restore onto a new hard drive. When I was figuring out dirvish I did not see anything in the wiki about restoring files, only how to configure the backup system to accept them. For that matter, a look now at the wiki does not find anything either. So, I want to put all files from my Slackware-13.0 backup onto a newly partitioned and formatted SATA2 disk. Please point me to some docs with step-by-step instructions I can follow. Many thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
