Randal-- Bravissimo!
Nothin' like havin' the Wizard on your side ;-) (I've been watching all three lists, MacPerl, Retro-OSX and Mac Admin for many months now, and it's been sort of a 'crescendo' of interwoven themes since your first note came up on MacPerl re: Backup Solution!) I love rsync ;-) Ciao And thanks for the great books, etc... PF >Here's the note I just posted to the osx-admin list... > >>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Randal> I can't be the first person to want an incremental disk-level catastrophy >Randal> recovery backup solution under OSX. > >Randal> What do the rest of you do? How do you deal with the broken >Randal> *mandatory* aliases on restore? >... ># mkdir /mnt ># mount /dev/disk1s9 /mnt --- this is where you need the disk number ># cd /mnt ># rsync -avx . --exclude /mnt/ / > >go away for a few hours > ># reboot > >And *it works just fine*. Bingo bingo bingo. Yes yes yes. > >"sudo rmdir /mnt" if you want, after you're up. No biggie if it just >sits there. > >I'm happy. Cool. Life is good. > > >-- >Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> >Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. >See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- AzByCx DwEvFu GtHsIr JqKpLo MnNmOl PkQjRi ShTgUf VeWdXc YbZa&@ Peter Fraterdeus, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia Disegno Industriale Informatica per il Disegno Industriale IUAV claDIS - INF borgo Cavour 40 cell phone:+39 340 580 77 90 i-31100 Treviso fax @ IUAV: 042 259 07 99 Italia vox @ IUAV: 042 241 54 03
