Re: Aw: Re: rsync remote raw block device with --inplace

2018-12-31 Thread Steve Newcomb via rsync
These responses have been very useful. Thanks especially to *Roland* devzero at web.de because...I'm installing diskrsync . So far it looks like it pretty much works. It's written in Go, which I hadn't used before. There was a bit of a learning curve

Re: rsync remote raw block device with --inplace

2019-01-02 Thread Steve Newcomb via rsync
More notes about diskrsync : (0) It seems to work well and efficiently. The README.md now explains how to install it and it's a lot easier than the script I included in my last note would seem to indicate. (I didn't and still don't know Go.) (1)

rsync remote raw block device with --inplace

2018-12-30 Thread Steve Newcomb via rsync
It would be very nice to be able to rsync the raw data content of, e.g., a non-mounted disk partition, particularly in combination with --inplace. Our reality: several dual-boot machines running Windows during the day and Linux at night, during backups. Windows is very tedious and iffy to