Is it possible to make a complete image (or clone) of your hard drive (FAT or NTFS) using rsync? Is it possible to make incremental backups of the image (without having to duplicate the source files)? When restored to a new hard drive it should be bootable again and should be an exact copy or clone of the original hard drive(i.e. the program should firstly copy the system file information necessary to boot). Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Theo van der Merwe (theodor2REMOVE@hotmail.com) _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:35:04AM +0000, Theo van der Merwe wrote:> Is it possible to make a complete image (or clone) of your hard drive (FAT > or NTFS) using rsync?No. rsync will copy the files and directory structure. It doesn't copy the filesystem/partition. Further, rsync runs under cygwin and is mostly restrained to POSIX semantics. Not being FAT or an NT user i'm not sure all the differences but i suspect that things like the system and hidden flags will be lost. I think there is a patch or a wrapper script out to preserve ACLs.> Is it possible to make incremental backups of the image (without having to > duplicate the source files)?Read the documentation. Rsync's purpose is to increment an image to be the same as the source. In that sense it is incremental. There is an option that allows you to create a kind of decremental backup tree.> When restored to a new hard drive it should be bootable again and should be > an exact copy or clone of the original hard drive(i.e. the program should > firstly copy the system file information necessary to boot).This sounds like a job for dd. rsync will not go anywhere near the boot block or MBR.> _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspxSure is. Thanks to MS every cracker that wants them has access to your hard drive. [[couldn't resist]] Mine is just a quick answer. If you have further questions i'm sure someone using rsync in cygwin will be glad to illuminate. Do read the various documents at rsync.samba.org to get a fuller picture. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: jw@pegasys.ws Remember Cernan and Schmitt
The only way to go about this, is to make a local imagefile first and
transfer this later in Windows environment with rsync.
Rgds,
Bart Coninckx
Network Administrator
CNE, ASE
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Is it possible to make a complete image (or clone) of your hard drive (FAT
or NTFS) using rsync?
Is it possible to make incremental backups of the image (without having to
duplicate the source files)?
When restored to a new hard drive it should be bootable again and should be
an exact copy or clone of the original hard drive(i.e. the program should
firstly copy the system file information necessary to boot).
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Theo van der Merwe (theodor2REMOVE@hotmail.com)
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Estimated gurus. I have a problem in my server. Has Red Hat 7.2 and rsync 2.4.6. This PC receive each 5 minutes backup from others PC. And randonly appears this error. Oct 15 17:30:35 conectapyme rsyncd[28394]: reverse name lookup failed Oct 15 17:30:41 conectapyme rsyncd[28394]: forward name lookup failed But only sometimes.... Making nslookup, I can resolve inversily by IP. Any solution ??