thanks for your reply.

i think all i would need is a grub floppy and a new option --ignore.

imho it should be possible to neither include nor exclude a pathname.


On 9/28/05, Dave Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> t takahashi wrote:
> > i am not a subscriber but i am a new user.
> >
> > i tried to mirror to the mount point of a partition, but rdiff-backup
> > balks at the lost+found file there.  if i use --force, then the
> > original's lost+found gets put there.  if i exclude lost+found, then
> > it disappears.
> >
> > so it is not easy to mirror to a partition, which i wanted to do for
> > easy bootability.
> >
> >\\
>
> Hi,
> I think you want rsync - rdiff-backup doesn't work the way you want I
> don't think. Its notion of destination is a descreet repository
> (directory) over which is has full control. Booting a machine off an
> rdiff-backup respository would be asking for trouble. Rsync doesn't look
> after the destination nearly as well.
>
> thanks
>
> dave
>


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