richard@the-place.net wrote:
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...
I did. I can't figure it out. 1. Changed /etc/fstab on the copy: ... /dev/hdc5 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 ...2. Changed /etc/lilo.conf from the originating partition to refer to the copy:
... image=/hdb5/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17.14-ck1 label=B5-617UX+ root=/dev/hdc5 append="apm=on ddcon=1 video=vesafb:ypan,1024x768-32@85 quiet" initrd=/hdb5/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17.14-ck1 read-only ... 3. Boot B5-617UX+ and what does df show? /dev/hdc3 7691004 3443139 3857084 48% / The originating partition. ??? Hugo