Re: grsync (rsync) usage question

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 18:51 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 12:32 -0500, Default User wrote:

Thanks for the reply. BTW, do you run rsync from within a live, running
Ubuntu system, or from a live cd to operate on "dead", unmounted
filesystems (to accurately copy/move/etc files that would be in a
dynamic state on a live, mounted filesystem)?

I am not sure I understand your question. I generally use rsync as a
fast copy/update system. I also use it with glastree (like pdumpfs
except written in Perl) to do daily backups of my notebook.
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Currently I use partimage to make full system backups. That's fine to
restore an entire system to its condition at the time of the last
backup, say in case of a catastrophic hard drive failure.

But any changes since the last backup are of course lost, and with
partimage, I can't restore just a file or part of a filesystem, I can
only restore entire partitions.

So I was wondering if rsync could be used to do a full backup of a live,
running filesystem, from within that filesystem (Or does that need to be
done from outside the filesystem, say from a rescue "live cd").

Or would I still have to use both partimage for full partition restores,
and rsync for partial filesystem restores and incremental backups?




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