Saving might not be so hard, but restoring is a big problem because rsync always generates a copy and then renames it in when finished.
- Dave On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:38:55PM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2002 13:31, Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: > > Can you dd the partition (or parts of it) to a temporary store, and then > > rsync that temporary image (of part of) the partition? > No, don't have the space. And btw, why should I copy a perfectly seekable > device to a file just to compare it? And afterwards copy the modified file > back onto the partition? > Sorry, no. > > I think it would suffice to change the check IS_REG() in generator.c and get > the size not from stat() but from ioctl(GETBLKSIZE) [?] > After all, a block device is nothing but a big file :-) > > > Regards, > > Phil > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
