On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edac...@gmail.com wrote: > On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote: > > I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var > > on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. > > I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space > > it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out > > of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or > > will it only work over a network? > > > > Thank you for any information > > > > > > See http://edacval.wikidot.com/backup-whole-system-with-rsync
Thanks very much for the link, I've printed it and am printing the rsync man page now. I may have a few more questions if that's ok. Thanks Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
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