Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

2010-09-10 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edac...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote: I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. I've tried dd however since it copies over

Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

2010-09-09 Thread edacval
On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote: I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space it didn't seem very practical since for

Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

2010-09-09 Thread Henri Shustak
I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out

Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

2010-09-09 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edac...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote: I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. I've tried dd however since it copies over

Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

2010-09-08 Thread Chris
I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out of 70