What is the intended purpose of your backup? If it is restore and boot the old setup - rsync is not the right tool - you should use dd to backup the full disk.
Tomas On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 10:35 logical american <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > > I booted up knoppix 8.6 as a standalone OS, in order to copy both linux > and windows partitions to a backup drive, but I am concerned that full > path information is being correctly copied for the ntfs files and > directories? > > I am using the rsync command to back up the files/directories. > > Do I assume everything is fine? The reason I am asking this question, is > I have seen abbreviated file path information "...." while watching the > copy under the -v option for verbose display while the copy operation is > in progress. Abbreviated file paths will not work when a restore is done > later on. > > - Randall > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
