On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Dave Howorth wrote: > Personally I'd buy a Hitachi rather than either WD or Seagate.
Dave, Oh? I've not followed hardware in several years so I don't know the relative reputations of the few remaining manufacturers. I had a Hitachi drive in the past, but my WD drives have generally been solid and quite reliable. Of course, that's with IDE drives only. > Since dirvish just stores images of the complete file tree, there's > nothing to say. Just copy your chosen image into your new file system, > using cp or rsync or whatever your favourite file copying tool is. I did not ask my question well. Will a restoration result in a bootable hard drive, or do I need to install the OS first, then copy all files over? Can the boot loader image from the backup be restored to the MBR on the drive? I'll need to copy partition-by-partition since I'll be putting all files in the / partition (except for /tmp which I'll make more secure). Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
