RE: Looking inside device files

2007-08-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Andre Majorel wrote: > > On 2007-08-21 05:55 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > On 8/20/07, Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a way to make rsync look inside device files ? > The goal is > > > to copy the contents of a block device to a regular file > > > incrementally. > >

Re: Looking inside device files

2007-08-22 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-08-21 05:55 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On 8/20/07, Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to make rsync look inside device files ? The goal > > is to copy the contents of a block device to a regular file > > incrementally. > > > > Short of that, even just getting it

Re: Looking inside device files

2007-08-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 8/20/07, Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to make rsync look inside device files ? The goal > is to copy the contents of a block device to a regular file > incrementally. > > Short of that, even just getting it to dump the block checksums of > the content a block device

Looking inside device files

2007-08-20 Thread Andre Majorel
Is there a way to make rsync look inside device files ? The goal is to copy the contents of a block device to a regular file incrementally. Short of that, even just getting it to dump the block checksums of the content a block device would help (if I know which blocks are out of sync, I can fix th