Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Thom Miller
Just using rsync to copy file by file. A quick google search just brought up this link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/full_system_backup_with_rsync which is very similar to how I did it. -Thom > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Thom Miller wrote: > >> >> >&

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Thom Miller
On 01/16/2015 01:28 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:32:24PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I care because I like to have a lot of free space in my partitions, but I >> hate to use backup time and space on the holes. > > Hi Kevin, > > If you copy the whole partition, byte-for-

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Thom Miller
On 01/06/2015 06:57 AM, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:42:43 + > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> On Ter, 06 Jan 2015, Joe wrote: >>> The main issue is that anything local mounted in /etc/fstab (even >>> removable drives) will be treated as essential, and if they are not >>> there, boo