On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:28:15PM -0800, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardare is unchanged). I wasn't sure if there was a way to do > this with dd because of the smaller drive on the restore. Initially, I > used 'rsync -avH --delete --no-numeric-ids src server:dst' to send > everything to another server and back. The number of files (including > links, etc.) seemed to check out, but disk usage (using 'du -cs /') was > different before and after (block size on the filesystem was the same as > before). Plus I was not sure if extended attributes were transfered > with the files. > > Anyone know if the extended attributes are transferred with rsync or why > the disk usage is not the same? Any suggestions on a better way to do > this? I'd like to avoid re-installing and reconfiguring again. > I think that systemimager might be what you want. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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