Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Thanks for the answers. > I guess I will try rsnapshot and rdiff-backup because although the rsync > job now works OK with --exclude /hdb5, I cannot boot from it: it keeps > booting the partition that it came from, although I adjusted > /hdb5/etc/fstab and reran lilo to point to the newly copied partition. You did edit /etc/lilo.conf as well, didn't you... -- richard