On Tuesday 05 August 2008 20:33, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > Yes, I will agree that rsync is easy to do if you already know the > command and what it is capable of. It is indeed a very powerful tool. > However, for someone who doesn't already know the command it can be a > bit overwhelming. At least that has been my experience in > watching/helping others with it. > > My experience with partimage is that as long as you have an idea of what > you want to do, the gui will hold your hand and get done what you need > to get done. This is exactly what some people want when they first get > started; a nice simple layout to get them started. The advanced stuff > can wait till they are ready. Partimage has a lot of really cool > advanced stuff, but simply running partimage at the command line (given > it is installed of course) will simply bring up the nice gui. > > I am of the opinion that you shouldn't blindly run commands on your > system that you have found out on the net. I am a big fan of researching > the command as well as the options. This usually requires reading > through the man pages and some Google searching. Rsync has 3463 lines of > documentation in the man pages alone. For someone like me who likes good > documentation to learn from, that is great! For someone who just wants > it to work, that is a PITA. > > Shachar Or and yourself are the only ones to suggest flags to use for > rsync. Even then, the full command wasn't even given which can only > confuse the inexperienced. Running 'rsync -ax' only kicks back the help > message. Doesn't really solve the problem that the user may think they > were attempting to solve. > > I have nothing against rsync. To be quite honest, the majority of uses > for these two tools are completely different. I just think in this case > it is a bigger jump to dive into rsync for a new user then it is for > partimage. I would much prefer to give someone a tool that will help > guide them (hence, in my mind, easier) then a really powerful tool that > is way more then they need and above their head. > > Anyway, maybe I am way off on this but before I blabber on and on I will > give the list a chance to see if everyone agrees or disagrees with me. > ;-D > > Have fun! > ~S~
I'll give this partimage thing a try. It sounds nice. I've gotten thus far with my skills, which is not very far, by reading through the long pages. There are things to get a nice UI for, and there are things that should be performed with "full" consciousness; filesystems tasks is of the latter, if you ask me. I estimate that Scarletdown, using multiple disks with multiple partitions, ultimately wants to learn how to use things like UUID's, LVM2, rsync, cfdisk, mkfs.*, fstab, etc.. I imagine he'll be thrilled to know how to use all these things! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]