Randal, these instructions are truly transformative. Thanks, -c
At 5:34 AM +0200 10/13/01, Peter Fraterdeus wrote: >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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Thorman (413) 473-0853 e-fax ------------------------------------------------------------------------
