Is there a way to use rdiff-backup to store an entire drive image without using an intermediate file?
For example, instead of dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > /mnt/hdb/hda.img use rdiff-backup to create /mnt/hdb/hda.img but also have a rdiff-backup-data dir with reverse diffs? Is this stupid? The idea came up with a conversation on backing up Windows. I don't know much about Windows, but I remember the last time I used it seriously (Window 98), it was very tough to backup and restore. The only way I ever successfully did it was a full disk image, bit for bit. None of the Windows backup software I ever tried worked. That was part of what led me to Linux, it drove me crazy to know that my backups were guaranteed to fail (happened three times). _______________________________________________ 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
