Bob McKay wrote:
I'm not certain; I don't have a non-FAT32 filesystem to backup to (I guess I could use spare space in the same volume, if rdiff-backup isn't going to be confused by that - in fact, the main disk needs to be repartitioned, which would solve that problem, but I'm not game to do that until I have it properly backed up - catch 22.
rdiff-backup won't mind if you backup to the same partition, it has no reason to. Just make some dir in /tmp and backup /bin to it or something. Shouldn't even take much space. If that goes well, then the problem is backing up to FAT32.
BTW, I don't know why I didn't mention this earlier, but FAT32 is a very unreliable filesystem. I would use ext3 or reiser on your backup disk/partition. At least use something with journaling.
Thanks for all the excellent advice - far more than the question I was originally asking, and all valuable
No problem :) Just making sure you don't mess up your system. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
