Re: rsync backup question
"Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info> writes:
> I partitioned a 1 TG usbdrive as ext3, mounted it as /usbmem
> [...]
>
> My object had been to backup everything before moving from Squeeze to
> Wheezy
>
> Any Suggestions?
There isn't much point in using rsync since you're neither copying to a
remote host, nor can you save time by copying only modified files
because it's the first and probably only copy.
Depending on what you're planning to do with the backup, tar would be a
good choice, and "cp -ax" works very well, too; just watch out for
"lost+find" directories when using cp. If you want a backup that can
easily be restored to a bootable system, you're probably much better off
creating a CD or DVD you can boot from and that includes a program to
backup partitions to files and to restore them from files.
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