-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What I did, diferent to you... is create exactly the same partitions in the second disk and I mount them with exactly the same hierachy as the root, but in /mnt/backup and the, rsync the whole root to /mnt/backup, so, everything should end up in it's own partition automatically, right ? Thanks.
El Jueves Agosto 28 2003 21:10, Peter Ruskin escribió: > On Friday 29 Aug 2003 00:40, Pupeno wrote: > > first of all, thank you... this script was very useful. > > You're welcome. > > > I'm modifying it for my own uses... may I ask why the "sleep 4" after > > the mount ? > > The last line of the script: > /sbin/hdparm -y /dev/hdc > spins the disk down. This disk is only used for backups, so it is spun > down at the end, to reduce power and noise. The sleep is to allow time > for it to spin up again. It may not be needed but it does no harm. > > I run this daily as a cron job. After the first day it's very quick, > and it's the fastest way I've found to restore yesterday's stuff. > > Peter - -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TprZLr8z5XzmSDQRAkvoAJ4zASiJ30qK6kMTsAzE7ft9Tm3SeACdFFQ3 /P8hp1uxlz98d/kPr6DrVXk= =NFeU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
